Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945 / / Di Luo.

• Superior document: China Studies ; 50
• VerfasserIn: Luo, Di,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 pages)

Beyond Citizenship examines the government provision of adult literacy training in early twentieth-century China, bringing to light new ways of interpreting the complex impacts literacy training had on strengthening the state in the republican era.

Table of Contents

6 Anti-Socratic Attitudes in Russian “Nietzscheanism” / Andrea Oppo -- 7 Gustav Shpet and the Greek Renaissance of Russian Thought / Liisa Bourgeot -- 8 “Skovoroda’s Way” in the Russian Symbolist and Post-Symbolist Tradition / Vadim Besprozvany -- 9 Between a Satyr and an Eccentric: Nikolai Bugaev as a Russian Socrates in Andrei Bely’s Works / Daria Solodkaia -- 10 Conversations with Socrates: The Image of Socrates in Russian and Soviet Philosophical Literature / Olga Lyanda-Geller -- 11 The Fear of the Word: Socratic Subtext in the Yershalaim Chapters of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita / Ksenia Radchenko -- 12 Maieutics for Socialist Children: Nikolai Nosov’s Neznaika and the Epistemology of Know-Nothingness / Denis Saltykov -- 13 Socrates as Symbol: Alexander Herzen, Merab Mamardashvili, and Alexander Pushkin / Alyssa DeBlasio -- 14 Socrates the Greek Teacher / Leo Tolstoy and Aleksandra Kalmykova -- 15 Grigory S. Skovoroda / Leo Tolstoy -- 16 All-Divergence: The Teachings of Iakov Abramov as Interpreted by His Disciples / Mikhail Epstein -- Index.