The Sea of Learning
Subtitle: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: October 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780674021341
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; History of ideas, intellectual history; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; History; History: World; China; Asia - China; History / China; 19th century; Education; Guangzhou; Guangzhou (China); Intellectual life
Description: Arguing that the academy did not exist in a scholarly vacuum, he contends that its location in the city of Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta embedded it in social settings and networks that determined who utilised its resources and who celebrated its success.