Difficult Sunrise: 20th Century Chinese Modern Education

Author: Yang Dongping
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: When we strive to build advanced culture, cultural innovation naturally becomes our most focused topic. Cultural originality is the core of cultural innovation. How to explore, promote, and protect cultural originality, and how to create a cultural ecosystem that allows cultural originality to flourish, must be placed on our agenda. Naming this series of books "Original Series" merely expresses our attitude, appeal, requirement, and aspiration. The tumultuous history of modern education in 20th-century China has formed some identifiable values and characteristics. The attitude towards our own national cultural traditions, the attitude towards foreign educational cultures, and the attitude towards our own educational reform may serve as a simple thread to understand this history. Since modern education—then called "new learning" or "new education"—was a product of rebellion against outdated traditions, the critique and transformation of feudal cultural traditions became the starting point and fundamental task of modern education.