Keeping the Nation’s House
Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Keeping the Nation’s House
Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China
336 pages | © 2011

Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The Ideology of the Happy Family, 1915-48
2 Gendered Responsibilities: Debates over Female Education in the Republican Period
3 Domestic Discipline: The Development of Home Economics Curricula
4 A Discipline of Their Own: Home Economists in Institutions of Higher Learning
5 Experimenting with the Family: Family Education Experimental Zones in the 1940s
6 Cleaning House: The Last Decade of a Gendered Discipline
7 The Post-1949 Politics of Home Economics: Stories of Professional Evolution
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Terms, Institutions, and Names
Bibliography
Index
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