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. | Education and Society in Late Imperial China 1600-1900 by Benjamin A. Elman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters