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Hardback. New. On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, merging with their own mythology while consciously deploying their activism. Through an investigation of twentieth-century Chinese student protest, Fabio Lanza considers the marriage of the cultural and the political, the intellectual and the quotidian, that occurred during the May Fourth movement, along with its rearticulation in subsequent protest. He ultimately explores the political category of the "student" and its making in the twentieth century. Lanza returns to the May Fourth period (1917-1923) and the rise of student activism in and around Beijing University. He revisits reform in pedagogical and learning routines, changes in daily campus life, the fluid relationship between the city and its…
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- Title Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing
- Author Fabio Lanza
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2010-08-13
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231152389 / 0231152388
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Higher education and state - China - History, Beijing da xue - Students - Political
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010000346
- Dewey Decimal Code 378.511
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