Keeping the Nation's HouseFor many, the term home economics conjures images ofsterile classrooms where young girls and women learn to cook dinner andswaddle dolls, far removed from the seats of power. Keeping the Nations House unsettles this assumptionby revealing how elite Chinese women helped to build modern China onefamily at a time. Trained between the 1920s and the early 1950s, homeeconomists believed that their discipline would transform the mostfundamental of political