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Shaping the Ideal Child: Children and Their Primers in Late Imperial China
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Shaping the Ideal Child: Children and Their Primers in Late Imperial China Hardback - 2005

by Limin Bai

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This book examines traditional Chinese literacy primers in the context of intellectual involvement in elementary education. It analyses the contents of the primers, their underlying philosophical premises, and what they reveal about elite attitudes towards children and childhood. The study points to a close link between elite conceptions of children and Confucian attempts to construct an ideal society. Providing a new perspective on pre-modern Chinese society and culture that is relevant to our understanding of education in contemporary China.

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To the ancient Chinese, the vulnerability of the child was clearly indicated in the means used to protect newborns, such as swaddling clothes.

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  • Title Shaping the Ideal Child: Children and Their Primers in Late Imperial China
  • Author Limin Bai
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 350
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
  • Publication date July 30, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789629961145 / 9629961148
  • Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.19 x 6.43 x 1 in (23.34 x 16.33 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Category History - General History

About the author

Limin Bai is a senior lecturer at the school of asian and european languages of Victorial University of Wellington. Her current research focuses on the intelligentsia in late imperial China; educational theory and practice in pre-modern and contemporary China.

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