Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators

by Ruth Hayhoe

Book Overview

Portraits, whether graphic or verbal, have distinct purposes and values. Through deliberate selection, they seek to reveal and, thereby, to illuminate. In their literary form, selection of content and style ensures that they do not presume to achieve the status of fully-fledged biographies. Even so, a carefully brush-stroked, multi-layered and richly textured pen-portrait is capable of revealing much about both character and circumstance. And what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402055676
• ISBN13: 9781402055676
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"