Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model

Educational developments and the Chinese experience Part I. Origins of Radical Education Reform: 2. Development dilemmas in the Republican era 3. The inheritance 4. The modern school system 5. The critical backlash 6. Early communist alternatives Part II. Learning from the Soviet Union: 7. Introducing the Soviet Union 8. The Soviet model for Chinese higher education 9. Sino-Soviet regularization and school system reform 10. Blooming, contending, and criticizing the Soviet model Part III. Cultural Revolution and Radical Education Reform: 11. The origins of cultural revolution 12. The great leap in education 13. A system divided: walking on two legs into the 1960s 14. Education reform as the catalyst for class struggle 15. Education reform as the culmination of class struggle: the professional educator's perspective 16. Education reform as the culmination of class struggle: the critical ideals triumphant at last 17. The Cultural Revolution negated 18. The mixed triumph of regularity 19. Chinese radicalism and education development.