TY - BOOK AU - Bai,Limin TI - Shaping the ideal child: children and their primers in late Imperial China SN - 9629961148 AV - LA1131 .B26 2005 U1 - 372.951 22 PY - 2005///] CY - Hong Kong PB - The Chinese University Press KW - Education KW - China KW - Child development N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword --; 1; The education of children : the Chinese approach --; 2; Primers and the establishment of Confucian education --; 3; The school of Wang Yangming and Ming-Qing primers --; 4; Shaping the ideal child : ritualising the body --; 5; Shaping the ideal child : modelling on exemplary deeds --; 6; Basic elementary training and the instillation of morals --; 7; Peasant children and the Confucian ideal society --; 8; Western influence and an intellectual search for a new type of primer ER -