Yiming Scholar Community

Author: Lü Miao Fen
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Publish Date: 2007-01-03
Features: This book studies 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's local lectures, the book also explores: the intellectual content of individual scholars, the topics of debates, internal differences within the school, the actions of individual scholars and groups and their political implications, Ming Dynasty education and the imperial examination system, and the changes in the social structure of the scholar-official group derived from these systems throughout society.