4. Changes in Confucian Civil Service Examinations from the Ming to the Ch'ing Dynasty

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. LIST OF MAPS AND TABLES IX
4. PREFACE XI
5. CONTRIBUTORS XIII
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. PART 1 • EDUCATION, FAMILY, AND IDENTITY
8. 1. The Education of Daughters in the Mid-Ch'ing Period 19
9. 2. Four Schoolmasters 50
10. 3. Education for Its Own Sake 76
11. PART 2 • EXAMINATIONS AND CURRICULA
12. 4. Changes in Confucian Civil Service Examinations from the Ming to the Ch'ing Dynasty 111
13. 5. Fang Pao and the Ch'in-ting Ssu-shu-uuen 150
14. 6. Discourse, Examination, and Local Elite 183
15. PART 3 • TECHNICAL LEARNING AND INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGE IN CH'ING EDUCATIONAL LIFE
16. 7. Learning Mathematical Sciences during the Early and Mid-Ch'ing 223
17. 8. Tai Chen and Learning in the Confucian Tradition 257
18. 9. Legal Education in Ch'ing China 292
19. 10. Manchu Education 340
20. PART 4 • THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION
21. 11. Elementary Education in the Lower Yangtze Region in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 381
22. 12. Education and Empire in Southwest China 417
23. 13. The Divorce between the Political Center and Educational Creativity in Late Imperial China 458
24. 14. Lung-men Academy in Shanghai and the Expansion of Kiangsu's Educated Elite, 1865-1911 493
25. AFTERWORD: THE EXPANSION OF EDUCATION IN CH'ING CHINA 525
26. INDEX 561