Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing

Fabio Lanza

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August, 2010
Cloth, 320 pages, 4 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-15238-9
$50.00 / £34.50

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Lived Space

1. Through the Walls: Everyday Life in the University

2. Untrained Bodies and Frugal Habits

Part II: Intellectual Space

3. The Displacement of Learning

Part III: Political Space

4. Learning Politics

5. Improper Places

Part IV: Social Space

6. Between Streets and Monuments

7. The Pedagogy of the City

Epilogue

8. The End of Students?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian History

Series

• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

About the Author

Fabio Lanza hails from Venice, Italy, and earned his Ph.D. in modern Chinese history at Columbia University. He is assistant professor of history at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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