Localizing Learning: The Literati Enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100-1600

by Peter K Bol

As the first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning shows how literati learning in Wuzhou came to encompass examination studies, Neo-Confucian moral philosophy, historical and Classical scholarship, encyclopedic learnedness, and literary writing, and traces how debates over the relative value of moral cultivation, cultural accomplishment, and political service unfolded locally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674267931
• ISBN13: 9780674267930
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 10.0"