A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China’s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for Sino-Western cooperation and, ultimately, intervention in family life. Chinese academics and officials sought new scientific measures, educational institutions, and social reforms to improve children’s welfare. Successive regimes encouraged teachers to shape children into Qing subjects, Nationalist citizens, or Communist comrades.
In Raising China’s Revolutionaries, Margaret Mih Tillman offers a novel perspective on the political and scientific dimensions of experiments with early childhood education from the early Republican period through the first decade of the People’s Republic. She traces transnational advocacy for child welfare and education, examining Christian missionaries, philanthropists, and the role of international relief during World War II. Tillman provides in-depth analysis of similarities and differences between Nationalist and Communist policy and cultural notions of childhood. While both drew on preschool institutions to mobilize the workforce and shape children’s political subjectivity, the PRC rejected the Nationalists’ commitment to the modern, bourgeois family. With new insights into the roles of experts, the cultural politics of fundraising, and child welfare as a form of international exchange, Raising China’s Revolutionaries is an important work of institutional and transnational history that illuminates the evolution of modern concepts of childhood in China.

她们是谁？ 她们是家庭主妇、医院护士、学校教师、工厂职工， 她们也是女儿、母亲、妻子、儿媳， 她们是大时代里平凡的女性。 倾听100多位阿嬷的生命故事， 在她们的讲述中发现历史。 本书是台湾“中研院”近史所研究员游鉴明运用口述材料研究女性历史的学术专著。书稿收录了她对收集整理女性口述史料，以及挖掘、研究女性口述历史的观点和看法。采写对象多为台湾女性，采写内容为她们个人的生活经历，部分内容涉及其在1949年前在大陆生活的经验，对有志于了解、从事口述历史的读者有很好助益。

本书基于民族识别和广西壮族自治区的成立这两大事件为研究切入点，从政治、知识社会学、族群意识三个维度分析“民族结构”问题在“国家政权建设”中的地位，以及由此在社会心理、公民身份认同等方面造成的长期影响。通过分析，作者认为，我国的国家政权建设在某种意义上是借助“民族话语”来实践的，国家在广西地区建立国家认同的同时，壮族的知识生产实践也构建起了一套新的话语体系，这不仅会对广西民众的心态层面产生一定影响，也有着不可忽视的文化和政治动员潜力。

◎作品看点
▲100年来最好看最完整的北洋国会历史
▲总统之争、派系厮杀、贿选丑闻、外交之辱，再现中国首次民主转型的阵痛
▲余世存、马勇、解玺璋等著名学者隆重推荐
◎内容简介
1911年，辛亥风云突变，告别帝制中国，走到了历史的十字路口。当此时，开国会、立宪法、建立共和政体，成为举国上下的最大诉求。仿佛国会一开，即可中华崛起。
作为亚洲第一个民主共和国的中华民国，政制的枢纽在于国会。以梁启超、宋教仁为首的议员，在国会上选总统、制宪法、监督政府、弹劾官员，距离一个宪政民主的中国，仿佛只有一步之遥。
历史的吊诡，恰在瞬息之间。宋教仁被刺、袁世凯称帝、二次革命兴起、曹锟贿选，一波紧随一波，国会三度解散，议员四处流散，十年制不出一部宪法。
本书生动、真实地再现1911-1928这段国会历史，探寻现代中国的首次民主转型，如何从万众期待之中，跌入万劫不复之境。

With the Qing Dynasty reform efforts (1901–1911), abolition of the civil service examination (1905), and the end of the monarchy (1912), the first three decades of the twentieth century brought important changes to the elite of Zhejiang Province. This book examines the social backgrounds, public activities, careers, and decision-making of local and provincial elites—that is, nonprofessional men who had taken on public duties when the multiplying problems of government had resulted in a general breakdown of public functions.
While elites in early twentieth-century China have often been caricatured as militarists, corrupt bureaucrats, evil landlords, and ineffectual reformers, they have not been clearly understood or closely analyzed. Since the seventeenth century, elites had been assuming increasing responsibility for funding and managing public projects, and by the twentieth century had expanded their activities still further. In the first three decades of the century, they experienced substantial personal and communitarian development; it was the structures and processes developed by these elites that subsequent regimes—Guomindang, Japanese, or Communist—had to build upon and adapt.
Keith Schoppa divides the counties of Zhejiang Province into four zones according to level of political and economic development and scrupulously analyzes the complex processes of remolding society at the local and provincial levels. By delving beneath the heroic figures and large movements of Chinese political life in this century, he reveals the common factors that make China a part of the worldwide story of reconstruction, reform, and developmental change.