Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004524736)

Beyond Citizenship focuses on the role of literacy in building a modern nation-state by examining the government provision of adult literacy training in early twentieth-century China. Based on untapped archives and diaries, Di Luo uncovers people's strategic use of literacy and illiteracy in social interactions and explores the impact of daily experiences on the expansion of state power. Highlighting interpersonal and intergroup relations, Beyond Citizenship suggests a new methodology of studying literacy which foregrounds the agentive role of historical actors and so moves away from a more traditional approach that treats literacy itself as the key factor enabling social change.

Author: Di Luo
ISBN-10: 9004524738
ISBN-13: 9789004524736
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2022
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover