Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900 (Volume 19)

Studies on China #19

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

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.

592 pages, Hardcover

First published July 24, 1994

About the author

Benjamin A. Elman is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University. His teaching and research fields include Chinese intellectual and cultural history, history of science and history of education in late imperial China.