Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900

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.


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 int

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.

CONTRIBUTORS:
Allan Barr
Cynthia J. Brokaw
Wejen Chang
Kai-wing Chow
Pamela Kyle Crossley
Benjamin A. Elman
R. Kent Guy
Catherine Jami
Barry Keenan
Angela Ki Che Leung
Kwang-Ching Liu
Susan Mann
William T. Rowe
Alexander Woodside