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In 1920, Yan returned to China and stopped at Shanghai. In 1922, In 1922, he organized to set up schools for popular education in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province. He reduced the Chinese vocabulary of forty thousand characters to the 1,300 most common characters and published four readers, which cost twelve cents total. With this handbook, Yan started the four month-span education with the purpose of getting rid of illiteracy. There were more than 50,000 beneficiary students. Mao Zedong was one of the 100 voluntary teachers at that time. |
In Jun of 1938, Mao Zedong said that Yan, as a religionist, successfully promoted national-scale popular education. He hoped more excellent leaders to participate in Yan’s project.
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