Yangming Scholar Society Community (History, Thought, and Practice)

Author: Lü Miao Fen
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book adopts the research approach of social and cultural history to study the rise and fall of the most important academic movement in the Ming Dynasty—Yongming Xue (Wang Yangming's Learning). In addition to describing the construction, development, and history of the Yongming School in chronological order, it explores the following aspects: the intellectual content of individual scholars, the issues debated, the internal differences within the school, the actions of individual scholars and groups and their political implications, the changes in Ming Dynasty education, the imperial examination system, and the intellectual class derived from it within the overall social structure. The dimensions covered extend from the inner world of individuals to the political and social level, making it a work that attempts to place Yongming Xue within the cultural context of the Ming Dynasty for study.