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An American historian of modern and late imperial China, VanderVen explains that at the beginning of the 20th century, the floundering Qing Dynasty, in a desperate effort to survive, instituted a series of institutional reforms designed to penetrate below the county level to villages. The reforms addressed finance, police, defense, and other areas, she says, but perhaps the most dramatic effect was in education. Recounting the education reforms in a northern county from their beginning in 1904 to the collapse of the dynasty in 1931, she discusses such aspects as Fengtian Province and Haicheng County, administering the new education system, funding the new community schools, and establishing girls' schools. Distributed in the US by the University of Washington Press, and in Canada by the University of Toronto Press. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
