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Dec 9, 2015 · Keeping the Nation's House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China. By Helen M. Schneider. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. xii, 321 pp. $94.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780774819978); 34.95 (paper, ISBN 9780774819985). | The Journal of Asian Studies | Cambridge Core.
Apr 4, 2013 · Extract. In this carefully researched book, Helen M. Schneider traces the origins and development of home economics in China. From its genesis in the early twentieth century, during the last decade of the Qing dynasty, to its demise some fifty years later under the communist regime, the art and science of domesticity were closely intertwined ...
- Janet Y. Chen
- 2013
540-231-8373 | hms@vt.edu. Helen Schneider is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech. She is currently researching the social history of China's war with Japan (1937-1945) and international relief work in China from the 1920s to 1952 (with a focus on 1940s reconstruction projects).
summary. The term home economics often conjures images of sterile classrooms where girls learn to cook dinner and swaddle dolls, 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.
In Keeping the Nation's House, Helen Schneider explores how Chinese educators and the Chinese state transformed the seemingly frivolous and individualistic bourgeois concept of domestic happiness into a political ideology that promised to save the Chinese nation.
- Elizabeth LaCouture
- 2013
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Keeping the Nation's House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China. Helen M. Schneider. UBC Press, Mar 1, 2011 - History - 336 pages.
