Series of Special Topic Histories of Chinese Culture -- History of Chinese Academies

Author: Deng Hongbo
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: The academy was a cultural and educational organization for scholars in China, evolving over more than a thousand years since the Tang Dynasty. At its peak, there were over 7,000 academies across various provinces, regions, and rural areas, contributing significantly to the development of Chinese education, culture, academia, publishing, and book collections. Academies also played a role in shaping folk customs, national thinking habits, and ethical concepts. The issue of academies has garnered widespread attention from all sectors. This book is a comprehensive and systematic academic monograph on the history of Chinese academies. It traces the development of academies as its main thread, describing their origins in the Tang Dynasty, flourishing in the Song Dynasty, continuity in the Yuan Dynasty, and widespread in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It emphasizes the cultural and phased characteristics of academies and provides detailed introductions to typical academies in each period, combining points, lines, and planes organically to reflect the close relationship between academies and traditional Chinese culture, as well as the transformations they underwent after the introduction of Western learning in modern times. The book is written in concise and fluent language, with clear focal points, making it easy to understand. It is an academic introductory read of high scholarly quality.