
Imperial China's Last Classical Academies: Social Change in the Lower Yangzi, 1864-1911
Keenan, Barry C.China Research Monograph 42
1994. 185 pp.
ISBN 1-55729-041-5
$16.00
Contents
Abbreviations—vi
Foreword—vii
Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
Acknowledgements—xi
Introduction—1
Part I: The Post-Taiping Expansion of Formal Education in Jiangsu, 1864-1900—7
1. Post-Taiping Academics and Public Charitable Schools in the Lower Yangzi—9
Part II: Three Classical Academies, 1865-1895—29
2. The Governor-general’s Academy—31
3. A Flagship Restoration Academy for Shanghai—48
4. The Founding of a New Provincewide Academy in 1884—62
Part III: The Lower Yangzi Educated Elite, 1896-1911—93
5. Lower Yangzi Education Transformed, 1896-1906—95
6. Power and Conflict: Jiangsu’s Local Educated Elite, 1906-1911—125
Conclusion—141
Epilogue—145
Glossary—151
Bibliography—157
Index—185

