Germany and Vocational Education in Republican China: Traveling Texts, Touring Skills

This book offers a new perspective on the transnational dimensions of China's educational and economic history by focusing on Sino-German interactions in the field of vocational education. It explores how Chinese perceptions of manual work, vocational skills, and educational practices changed dramatically throughout the first half of the twentieth century as Chinese educators increased their efforts to study and translate German pedagogical writings. Case studies researched in this book illustrate how a Chinese appreciation for German technological and scientific advances and German interests in profiting from a growing Chinese economy are not just recent phenomena but have their roots in the early twentieth century.

Author: Henrike Rudolph
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/14/2023
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9783030949365