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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/school-education-political-ide
 ology-and-social-mobility-comparative-study-1950s-mainland/
SUMMARY:School Education\, Political Ideology and Social Mobility: A Compar
 ative Study of 1950's Mainland China and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:\n	Osawa Hajime (Assistant Professor of Chinese Area Studies\, 
 College of International Studies\, Chubu University\, Japan\; Visiting res
 earch fellow\, Toyo Bunko\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair/discussant: Elis
 abeth Köll (Associate Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Busi
 ness School)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
 \n\n\n	In 1950s Mainland China\, there was a rapid expansion of school edu
 cation based on the following reasons: (1) to enhance national productivit
 y\, (2) to increase the number of students from worker-peasant class origi
 ns who sympathized with Communism\, and (3) to allow the PRC government to
  maintain political legitimacy through the school education system. Meanwh
 ile\, educational aspirations had risen and in particular village people h
 ad a strong motivation to use entrance into middle school as an expression
  of social mobility. Thus\, the expansion of school education grew from a 
 concurrence of the interests of the PRC government and those of the people
 \, albeit for different reasons. This expansion subsequently led to proble
 ms with education standards\, causing the PRC government to change its edu
 cation policy and increase the level of difficulty to enter middle school\
 , resulting in social dissatisfaction. This presentation will detail the a
 bove phenomenon and its implications based on archival materials\, followe
 d by a discussion of the role of school education under the party-state sy
 stem through a comparison with the rapid expansion of the school education
  system in 1950s Taiwan\, as both areas share a similar language\, culture
  and political system.
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