Academies and Society in Southern Sung China / / Linda A. Walton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Walton, Linda A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

Academies belonged to a broad constellation of educational institutions that flourished in the Sung (960-1279), an era marked by profound changes in economy, technology, thought, and social and political order. This study, the first comprehensive look at the Sung academy movement, explains the phenomenon not only as a uh_product of intellectual changes, but also as part of broader social, economic, political, and cultural transformations taking place in Sung China. Academies and Society in Southern Sung China makes extensive use of commemorative inscriptions and other documentation on nearly 500 academies and thus provides a crucial historical perspective on the origins of this key institution.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Geographies Intellectual , Economic , and Sacred -- 1. From Northern to Southern Sung: Academies and the True Way Movement -- 2. Shrines, Schools, and Shih: the Thirteenth-Century Academy Movement -- 3. The Academy Movement: Economic and Sacred Geography -- Part 2:Academies in the Society and Culture of the Southern Sung Shih -- 4. Kin and Community: From Family School to Academy -- 5. Social Integration and Cultural Legitimacy: Academies and the Community of Shih -- 6. Academies and the Learning of the Shih, ca. 1225–1275 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index