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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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.
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nonliterate education, model examination essays, ancient prose style, first policy question, benevolence passage, martial bannermen, evidential scholars, yao yen, absolute refinement, local educated elite, jen chuan, banner officers, banner population, evidential research, chii jen, clan school, jen degree, metropolitan examinations, charitable schools, prefectural examination, banner education, litigation masters, classical literacy, provincial examination, orthodox transmission Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chu Hsi, Fang Pao, Wang Hui-tsu, Four Books, Ch'en Hung-mou, Tai Chen, Imperial College, Tseng Kuo-fan, Five Classics, Yao Nai, New York, Lung-men Academy, Ch'en T'ien-hsi, Tai Ming-shih, Hanlin Academy, Lower Yangtze, Chang Wei, Chang Hsueh-ch'eng, Old Text, Juan Yuan, Wang Yang-ming, Huang Tsung-hsi, Ch'ing China, K'un Kang, Commercial Press New!
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One of the best-loved and most-performed operas of the southern stage tells the romance of Liang Shan-po and Chu Ying-t'ai. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonliterate education, model examination essays, ancient prose style, first policy question, benevolence passage, martial bannermen, evidential scholars, yao yen, absolute refinement, local educated elite, jen chuan, banner officers, banner population, evidential research, chii jen, clan school, jen degree, metropolitan examinations, charitable schools, prefectural examination, banner education, litigation masters, classical literacy, provincial examination, orthodox transmission Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chu Hsi, Fang Pao, Wang Hui-tsu, Four Books, Ch'en Hung-mou, Tai Chen, Imperial College, Tseng Kuo-fan, Five Classics, Yao Nai, New York, Lung-men Academy, Ch'en T'ien-hsi, Tai Ming-shih, Hanlin Academy, Lower Yangtze, Chang Wei, Chang Hsueh-ch'eng, Old Text, Juan Yuan, Wang Yang-ming, Huang Tsung-hsi, Ch'ing China, K'un Kang, Commercial Press New!
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- From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China by Benjamin A. Elman on 14 pages
- Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage (Studies on China) by Wm. Theodore de Bary on 6 pages
- Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China by Benjamin A. Elman on 5 pages
- Popular culture in late imperial China (Studies on China) by David;Berling, Judith A.;Nathan, Andrew J.;American Council of Learned Societies;Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida Johnson on 4 pages
- Women in Chinese Society (Studies in Chinese Society) by Margery Wolf on 4 pages
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- China's Universities, 1895-1995: A Century of Cultural Conflict (RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education) by Ruth Hayhoe in Front Matter, page 25, and Back Matter
- China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge (Studies in Modern Capitalism) by Timothy Brook in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A Companion to Gender History (Blackwell Companions to World History) by Teresa A. Meade on page 144, and Back Matter
- China's National Minority Education: Culture, Schooling, and Development (Reference Books in International Education) by Gerard A. Postiglione on page 88
- Islam in the Era of Globalization: Muslim Attitudes towards Modernity and Identity (RoutledgeCurzon Studies in Asian Religions) by Johan Meuleman in Back Matter
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