Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900 [Hardcover]

Benjamin A. Elman (Editor), Alexander Woodside (Editor)

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Hardcover: 592 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (Aug 23 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520082346
ISBN-13: 978-0520082342
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 953 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,445,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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.

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.

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