Shaping the ideal child : children and their primers in late Imperial China /

Bai, Limin,

Shaping the ideal child : children and their primers in late Imperial China / Limin Bai. - xxiv, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- The education of children : the Chinese approach -- Primers and the establishment of Confucian education -- The school of Wang Yangming and Ming-Qing primers -- Shaping the ideal child : ritualising the body -- Shaping the ideal child : modelling on exemplary deeds -- Basic elementary training and the instillation of morals -- Peasant children and the Confucian ideal society -- Western influence and an intellectual search for a new type of primer. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

9629961148 9789629961145

2007320465


Education--China
Child development--China

LA1131 / .B26 2005

372.951

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