Xiaoping Cong is an associate professor of history atthe University of Houston.

"A major contribution to the study of teachers' schools in Republican China. Xiaoping Cong's work helps us understand why China's rural society and lasting feudal structure were transformed and dismantled during the Republican period and also what led to the success of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. - George Wei, author of Sino-American Economic Relations, 1944-49"

• Introduction1 The Imperial School System and Education Reform in the Second Halfof the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Review2 Education and Society in Transition: The Rise of Teachers'Schools, 1897-19113 Pursuing Modernization in Trying Times: Teachers' Schoolsfrom 1912-224 Modernity and the Village: The Emergence of VillageTeachers' Schools, 1922-305 Nationalizing the Local: Teachers' Schools in RuralReconstruction, 1930-376 Transforming the Revolution: Social and Political Aspects ofTeachers' Schools, 1930-37ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Xiaoping Cong is an associate professor of history atthe University of Houston.

"A major contribution to the study of teachers' schools in Republican China. Xiaoping Cong's work helps us understand why China's rural society and lasting feudal structure were transformed and dismantled during the Republican period and also what led to the success of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. - George Wei, author of Sino-American Economic Relations, 1944-49"

• Introduction1 The Imperial School System and Education Reform in the Second Halfof the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Review2 Education and Society in Transition: The Rise of Teachers'Schools, 1897-19113 Pursuing Modernization in Trying Times: Teachers' Schoolsfrom 1912-224 Modernity and the Village: The Emergence of VillageTeachers' Schools, 1922-305 Nationalizing the Local: Teachers' Schools in RuralReconstruction, 1930-376 Transforming the Revolution: Social and Political Aspects ofTeachers' Schools, 1930-37ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Xiaoping Cong is an associate professor of history atthe University of Houston.

"A major contribution to the study of teachers' schools in Republican China. Xiaoping Cong's work helps us understand why China's rural society and lasting feudal structure were transformed and dismantled during the Republican period and also what led to the success of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. - George Wei, author of Sino-American Economic Relations, 1944-49"

• Introduction1 The Imperial School System and Education Reform in the Second Halfof the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Review2 Education and Society in Transition: The Rise of Teachers'Schools, 1897-19113 Pursuing Modernization in Trying Times: Teachers' Schoolsfrom 1912-224 Modernity and the Village: The Emergence of VillageTeachers' Schools, 1922-305 Nationalizing the Local: Teachers' Schools in RuralReconstruction, 1930-376 Transforming the Revolution: Social and Political Aspects ofTeachers' Schools, 1930-37ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex