Keeping the nation's house : domestic management and the making of modern China / Helen M. Schneider.

Keeping the nation's house : domestic management and the making of modern China /

The term home economics often conjures images of girls learning to cook dinner and swaddle dolls in sterile classrooms far removed from the seats of power. Helen Schneider unsettles this assumption by revealing how Chinese women helped to build a nation one family at a time. From the 1920s to the ea...

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Main Author: Schneider, Helen M.
Corporate Author: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Department of History
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011.
Series:Contemporary Chinese studies.
Subjects:
Home economics > China > History > 20th century.
Home economics > Study and teaching > China > History > 20th century.
Women > Education > Women > China > History > 20th century.
Women > China > Social conditions > 20th century.
Sex role > China > History > 20th century.
Families > Political aspects > China > History > 20th century.
China > Social conditions > 1912-1949.
China > Social conditions > 1949-1976.
dissertations.
Academic theses.
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