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Taking Education as Politics: From “RevolutionaryPeking University” to “Party Doctrine Education”(PDF)

《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]

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2014年04期
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Title:
Taking Education as Politics: From “RevolutionaryPeking University” to “Party Doctrine Education”
Author(s):
CHENG Tian-jun
Keywords:
social transformation revolution political education revolutionary Peking University party doctrine education
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From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, China faced unprecedented turbulence that had never been seen during the previous 3,000 years and a predicament of saving China from subjugation. It also witnessed an explosive growth of “the sense of cultural hell” in parallel with “the revolutionary trend” among the Left. All this made China in the past two centuries “a country of revolution and centuries of revolution”. The school education, placed in such a society, was greatly affected by the politics, which means that not only the political education but also the whole school system was politicized and revolutionized, hence the saying “education is politics”. Sociologically speaking, there was a duet between the structure(i.e. “I have to act”)and the agency(i.e. “I would like to take action”), in which the revolutionary Peking University was born. As a matter of fact, after the Nationalist Party came into power, schools at all levels commonly regarded the party doctrines as the key to education; the political education pursued the ideas of the party; the country as well as the education was ruled and managed according to the party doctrines; and the party was indispensible to all political education facilities. The Nationalist Party once wished to strengthen its one-party dictatorship by education. Although the effort failed, it has left many questions worthy of further consideration.

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