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Hardcover The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou Book

ISBN: 0674021347

ISBN13: 9780674021341

The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou

(Book #269 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)

In 1817 a Cantonese scholar was mocked in Beijing as surprisingly learned for someone from the boondocks; in 1855 another Cantonese scholar boasted of the flourishing of literati culture in his home region. Not without reason, the second man pointed to the Xuehaitang (Sea of Learning Hall) as the main factor in the upsurge of learning in the Guangzhou area. Founded in the 1820s by the eminent scholar-official Ruan Yuan, the Xuehaitang was indeed one...

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