Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900

Exploring the significance of education to Chinese social, political and intellectual life in late imperial China, this volume contains 15 essays providing a wide-ranging study of China's early education policies.

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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.