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Introduction

1. The Ideological Infrastructure of Citizenship: Schools and Publishing

2. Nation as Race, Culture, or Place? The National Community in History and Geography Textbooks

3. Practicing Politics: Student Self-government and Civic Republicanism

4. Cultural Revolution and the Social Organism

5. Tempering Bodies, Molding Moral Characters: Training, Cultivation, and Cultural Citizenship

6. From Mobilization to Routinization: Transformations of Civic Ritual and Performative Citizenship

7. Enacting Citizenship: Youth Activism and National Politics

Conclusion: The Trajectory of Modern Chinese Citizenship

Appendix A. A Statistical Portrait of Lower Yangzi Region Secondary Schools and Students During the Republican Period

Appendix B. Capsule Biographies of Selected Textbook Authors

Bibliographic Essay

Works Cited

Index

Robert Culp is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Bard College.