1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483417003321

Autore

Chen Pingyuan <1954->

Titolo

A historical study of early modern Chinese fictions (1890-1920) / / Pingyuan Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gateway East, Singapore : , : Springer : , : Peking University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

981-334-889-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 252 p. 2 illus.)

Disciplina

895.134809

Soggetti

Chinese fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One Birth of New Fiction in China -- Chapter Two Inspiration and Simulation from Foreign Fictions -- Chapter Three Commercialization of Fictions and Rise of Book Printing -- Chapter Four Swaying Between Philistinism and Sublimity -- Chapter Five Compound Plot and Scenic Structure -- Chapter Six Coexistence of Classical Chinese and Vernacular Chinese in Fiction Writing -- Chapter Seven From Romances to Officialdom Novels -- Chapter Eight Travelers in Narratives -- Chapter Nine Documentation, Condemnation and Sentimentality.

Sommario/riassunto

This book contains a classic guide to historical study of early modern Chinese fiction from the late Qing Dynasty till early republican China. It does not merely study the new fiction writing in China, which was strongly influenced by the western fiction, but also draws a comparison between classical Chinese fiction and the early modern Chinese fiction. This book is an excellent reference in the study of early modern Chinese literature since it conveys a point of view to the readers with abundant and solid historical materials. At the heart of the book, it is the matter of a specific value in trans-cultural studies between the western world and China.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789078003321

Autore

Baker Raymond William <1942->

Titolo

Egypt's uncertain revolution under Nasser and Sadat / / Raymond William Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London : , : Harvard University Press, , 1978

©1978

ISBN

0-674-28039-3

Edizione

[Reprint 2014]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages)

Disciplina

962/.05

Soggetti

Geschichte Afrikas

Nationalisme

Regeringen

Revoluties

HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt)

Egypt History 1952-1970

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. RULING EGYPT -- 1. The Military Conspirators -- 2. Building a Political-Economic Order -- 3. Bureaucratic Feudalism -- 4. Nasser's Search for a New Way -- 5. From Despair to Exultation -- 6. Sadat's Egypt Takes Form -- PART TWO. TRANSFORMING EGYPT -- 7. Managers and the New Industrial Order -- 8. Agricultural Cooperatives -- 9. Rural Health Care -- 10. The Regime and the Revolution -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484274503321

Titolo

Controversies in Education : Orthodoxy and Heresy in Policy and Practice / / edited by Helen Proctor, Patrick Brownlee, Peter Freebody

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

9783319087597

3319087592

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Policy Implications of Research in Education, , 2543-0297 ; ; 3

Disciplina

306.43

370

371.26

379

Soggetti

Education and state

Educational sociology

Educational tests and measurements

Educational Policy and Politics

Sociology of Education

Assessment and Testing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Heresies and orthodoxies in contemporary schooling: Helen Proctor, Peter Free body and Patrick Brownlee -- Schools not fit for purpose: New approaches for the times: Johanna Wyn -- Schools and communities fit for purpose: Dorothy Bottrell -- Testing times: Data and their (mis-)use in schools: Peter Reimann -- Are these testing times or is it a time to test? Reconsidering the place of tests in students’ academic development: Andrew J. Martin -- Evidence-Based Policy: Epistemologically specious, ideologically unsound: Anthony Welch -- Neglecting the evidence: Are we expecting too much from quality teaching? Margaret Vickers -- Public diversity; private disadvantage: schooling and ethnicity: Carol Reid -- Building new social movements: The politics of responsibility and accountability in school-community relationships: Kelly Free body -- Does the new doxa



of integrationism make multicultural education a contemporary heresy? Georgina Tsolidis -- Multicultural education: Contemporary heresy or simply another doxa: Megan Watkins -- Why global policies fail disengaged young people at the local level: Susan Groundwater-Smith & Nicole Mockler -- Education policy ‘at risk’: Kitty te Riele -- ‘Money made us’: A short history of government funds for Australian schools Geoffrey Sherington and John P. Hughes -- Beyond modernity? A sociological engagement with ‘A short history of government funding for Australian schools’: Martin Forsey -- Markets all around: defending education in a neoliberal time: Raewyn Connell.-Markets made out of love: parents, schools and communities before neoliberalism: Helen Proctor -- Who are the heretics? Patrick Brownlee and Peter Free body.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the outcome of a colloquium series organized by The University of Sydney in which leading and emerging researchers were invited to name what they took to be the deep flaws at the heart of contemporary educational and policy and practice in Australia and globally — to voice their potentially ‘heretical’ views on what most urgently needs to be done. The chapters in this collection are paired to offer two takes on each topic, from supplementing to critiquing to countering, and most points in between. The issues addressed in this volume include:  the place of education in national and international marketplaces, mass testing and standardisation, the future of ‘multiculturalism’ in schools, the public funding of private schools, the complicated relationship between evidence and policy and the shifting politics of inequality. This book is based on the idea that recognising deep disagreements on big issues is a necessary accompaniment to imagining and developing productive ways forward.