Elasticity and Toughness: Ethnography of Minban Teachers' Policy Implementation in Rural Chinese Society

This book examines minban teacher policies and their implementation in China between 1949 and 2000, when rural areas were in severe shortage of qualified teachers. During this period of time, minban teachers made great contributions to education, doing the same work as state-employed school teachers while receiving much lower salaries due to non-official status.

With solid fieldwork on oral history of minban teachers and policy actors and deep examination of a wealth of policy documents in p...