Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900 (Volume 19) (Studies on China) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520082346 ISBN 13: 9780520082342

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Synopsis

This comprehensive volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries, revealing the significance of education in Chinese social, political, and intellectual life. A collaboration between social and intellectual historians, these fifteen essays provide the most wide-ranging study in English on China's education in the centuries before the modern revolution.

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From the Back Cover:

With unprecedented breadth, this volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries of Chinese social, political, and intellectual life. The essays probe beneath the educational ideals enunciated by Neo-Confucian philosophers to elucidate actual educational practice in China from the late Ming dynasty to the late Ch'ing. Among the questions addressed: How was education affected by gender and kinship relations? What were the content and perceived function of elementary education? How did civil service examinations represent elite educational ideals? How did the doubling in size of the late empire under Manchu rule influence the extension of education and schooling in a multiethnic political culture? The authors also examine the intellectual battles over the very meaning of "school" in China before the twentieth century. A collaboration between social and intellectual historians, this volume is the most comprehensive work in English on education in China from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century.

About the Author:

Benjamin A. Elman is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Alexander Woodside is Professor of History at the University of British Columbia.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0520082346
• ISBN 13: 9780520082342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Elman Benjamin A., Woodside Alexander