Community Schools and the State in Ming China
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- ISBN 9780804751742
- Weight: 549g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 2006
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empire for any boy to attend. This book looks at how the schools worked, how they changed over time, and who promoted them and why. Over the course of the Ming period (1368-1644), schools were sponsored first by the emperor, then by the central bureaucracy, then by local officials, and finally by the people themselves. The changing uses of schools helps us to understand how the Ming state related to society over the course of nearly 300 years, and what they can show us about community and political debates then and now.
Sarah Schneewind is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
