User:Generalissima/Literacy in China

Rewrite attempt of the frankly, not that great Literacy in China.

General

 * Pine, Nancy, and Zhenyou Yu. Perspectives on teaching and learning Chinese literacy in China, pp. 81-106. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012.


 * Wang, Feng, Yaching Tsai, and William S.-Y. Wang. “Chinese Literacy.” Chapter. In The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy, edited by David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance, 386–417. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.


 * Chia, Lucille. "Print Culture and the Circulation of Knowledge in Imperial China, 8th–17th Centuries." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. 2020.


 * Yu, Li. "Character Recognition: A New Method of Learning to Read in Late Imperial China." Late Imperial China 33, no. 2 (2012): 1-39.

Ancient (Han and prior)

 * Feng, Li, and David Prager Branner, eds. Writing and Literacy in Early China: Studies from the Columbia Early China Seminar. University of Washington Press, 2011. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcwng4z.


 * Feng, Li. “Literacy Crossing Cultural Borders: Evidence from the Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Zhou Period (1045–771 B.C.).” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 74 (2002): 210–42.


 * Smith, Adam D. “Writing at Anyang: The role of the divination record in the emergence of Chinese literacy.” PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2008.


 * Tao, Liqing, and David Reinking. “The Move Towards Literacy Among Confucian Scholars in Ancient China.” In The Edinburgh History of Reading: Early Readers, edited by Mary Hammond, 1:11–30. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv2f4vgn9.6.


 * Foster, Christopher J. "The Spread of Scribal Literacy in Han China." Power from Below in Premodern Societies: The Dynamics of Political Complexity in the Archaeological Record, edited by Thurston, TL and Fernández-Götz, Manuel (2021): 175-201.


 * Sanft, Charles. Literate community in early imperial China: The northwestern frontier in Han times. SUNY Press, 2019.

Tang

 * Yang, Jidong. Writing in the Tang: Literature and society in 7–10th century China. University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
 * Wu, Shaowei. "A Study on the Literacy Rate of Buddhist Sangha in the Tang Dynasty." Religions 15, no. 3 (2024): 306.

Song

 * Fried, Daniel. The First Print Era: The Rise of Print Culture in China’s Northern Song Dynasty. Taylor & Francis, 2023.
 * Xidong, Jiang. "The Productivity Level of the Song Dynasty." Social Sciences in China 44, no. 2 (2023): 74-93.

Ming

 * Meyer-Fong, Tobie. “The Printed World: Books, Publishing Culture, and Society in Late Imperial China.” The Journal of Asian Studies 66, no. 3 (2007): 787–817. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20203205.
 * Schneewind, Sarah. "How the Primer-Literate Read Ming Steles: A Digital Speculation." Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 4, no. 1 (2020): 85-109.

Qing

 * Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida. Education and Popular Literacy in Ch’ing China. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1979.
 * Li, Ren-Yuan. "Making texts in villages: Textual production in rural China during the Ming-Qing period." PhD diss., 2014.
 * He, Jiani. "Literate in What Language? The Qing Empire's Trilingual Policy towards the Jirim League (1901-1911)." Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies 15 (2018).
 * Brokaw, Cynthia J. "The Diffusion of Print Culture in Qing China." In Commerce in Culture, pp. 535-570. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
 * Bai, Limin. "Children and the survival of China: Liang Qichao on education before the 1898 Reform." Late Imperial China 22, no. 2 (2001): 124-155.
 * Kung, James Kai-Sing, and Alina Yue Wang. "Foreign education, ideology, and the fall of imperial China." Ideology, and the Fall of Imperial China (September 15, 2020) (2020).
 * Zhitian, Luo, and Mei Chun. "The Impact of the Abolition of the Examination System on Rural Society." In Shifts of Power, pp. 99-136. Brill, 2017.

Republican era

 * Luo, Di. Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945. Brill, 2022.
 * Gao, Pei. "Risen from chaos: the development of modern education in China, 1905-1948." PhD diss., London School of Economics and Political Science, 2015.
 * Luo, Di. "Learning the new culture: Rural literacy education in Shanxi in the 1930s and 1940s." In Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China, pp. 185-201. Routledge, 2019.

People's Republic

 * Hayford, Charles W. "Literacy movements in modern China." In National Literacy Campaigns and Movements, pp. 147-171. Routledge, 2017.
 * Peterson, Glen. The Power of Words: literacy and revolution in South China, 1949-95. Vol. 1. UBC Press, 1997.
 * Chen, Xueer. "Adult literacy policy and practice in post-1949 China: A historical perspective." Studies in the Education of Adults 55, no. 1 (2023): 120-137.
 * Zhou, Minglang. "Legislating literacy for linguistic and ethnic minorities in contemporary China." Current Issues in Language Planning 6, no. 2 (2005): 102-121.
 * Dezhi, Wu. "Illiteracy, legal illiteracy and the transition of the socially effective scope of judicial authority." In Renmin Chinese Law Review, pp. 62-89. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
 * Peterson, Glen. "The struggle for literacy in post-revolutionary rural Guangdong." The China Quarterly 140 (1994): 926-943.
 * Treiman, Donald. "The growth and determinants of literacy in China." In Education and reform in China, pp. 135-153. Routledge, 2012.
 * Leung, Cynthia B., and Yiping Wang. "Influences of the cultural revolution on Chinese literacy instruction." In Perspectives on teaching and learning Chinese literacy in China, pp. 49-60. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012.
 * Literacy in China: The Effect of the National Development Context and Policy on Literacy Levels, 1949–79. By Vilma Seeberg. [Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1990, 348 pp. DM44.80.]
 * Pepper, Suzanne. "Post-Mao Reforms in Chinese Education: can the ghosts of the past be laid to rest?." In Chinese Education, pp. 1-41. Routledge, 2017.