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Paul J. Bailey. Gender and Education in China: Gender Discourses and Women's Schooling in the Early Twentieth Century. (Routledge Contemporary China Series.) New York: Routledge. 2007. Pp. ix, 246. $120.00.

Paul J. Bailey uses the term "modernizing conservatism" as a key concept in this book to describe and analyze the debate on women's education in early twentieth-century China. The term refers to a particular strand of thought concerned with the possible unwelcome consequences resulting from the implementation of a modern education system, while endorsing modernizing changes. The "modernizing conservative" dialogue, which permeated the newspaper and periodical press during the period from the 1890s to the May Fourth Movement in the late 1910s, both reflected and influenced this initial period of women's public education.

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