Yangming Scholar Society Community: History, Thought, and Practice

Author: Lü Miao Fen
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book takes a research approach from 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, the explored content also includes: the intellectual connotations of scholars' personal thoughts, debate topics, internal differences within the school, the actions of scholars and even groups of scholars and their political implications, the Ming Dynasty's education and imperial examination system, and the changes in the scholar group derived from it in the overall social structure. The dimensions covered extend from the personal inner world to the political and social level, and it is a work that attempts to place Yongming Xue within the cultural context of the Ming Dynasty for discussion.