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.