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Qi Rushan's Memoirs: Education Reform in the Late Qing
CITIC Press · 2014
This book is the portion of the memoirs of Qi Rushan (1875–1962), theorist of Peking opera and theatrical activist, that deals with his early schoolin…
The Jinx of the Great Tang
The Jinx of the Great Tang is a long historical time-travel novel by Qidian master author Sir Dibaba, serialized from July 1, 2020 and completed in Au…
Through a Cat's Eyes: How History Defies "Common Sense"
Phoenix Books, Ltd. · 2024
This book is a collection of historical essays by Yang Nianqun, a historian and professor at the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China…
The Learning of the Gentleman: The Educational Tradition of Cultivating Sages and Worthies
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2017
This book is one volume in the "Twenty-Four Facets of Chinese Culture" series, written by Professor Yan Guangfen of the Higher Education Research Inst…
The Eight-Legged Essay of the Qing Dynasty
Zhonghua Book Company · 2015
The Eight-Legged Essay of the Qing Dynasty is an accessible study devoted to the eight-legged essay (baguwen) by the literary and historical scholar D…
The Son of Heaven's Disciple in the Great Song
· 2008
The Son of Heaven's Disciple in the Great Song is a historical time-travel web novel by author Xia Yanbing. Serialized on Qidian.com starting in Janua…
Qingdi
Qingdi is a classical xianxia novel by the web author Jing Kesou, serialized on Chuangshi Chinese Network starting August 1, 2013. The complete work s…
The Qing Inherited the Ming System: State Governance and Social Change in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025
This book is a thematic study by Chen Baoliang, a scholar of Ming–Qing social history, who reexamines the traditional thesis that "the Qing inherited …
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China
CITIC Press · 2016
This volume is the fourth in the six-volume History of Imperial China series. Written solely by Dieter Kuhn, professor of Sinology at the University o…
The Scholars
People's Literature Publishing House · 2022
The Scholars is a chapter-novel by Wu Jingzi of the Qing dynasty. In fifty-six chapters and about 400,000 characters, it portrays nearly two hundred f…
The Scholars
People's Literature Publishing House · 2020
The Scholars is a full-length satirical novel by the Qing dynasty novelist Wu Jingzi, consisting of fifty-six chapters and completed around the mid-ei…
The Tang-Song "Ancient Prose Movement" and Literati-Official Literature
Zhonghua Book Company · 2025
This is a representative scholarly monograph on the Tang-Song "Ancient Prose Movement" by Professor Zhu Gang of the Department of Chinese Language and…
The Ci Examination and Southern Song Literature
Peking University Press · 2025
The first study to take the ci-specialized examination (cike) as its central topic, this book examines the relationship between the Song dynasty civil…
Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Song Dynasty Literature
Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2020
In recent years, scholarship on Song dynasty literature has broadened its horizons considerably. Scholars have approached the field from a variety of …
Cultural Institutions and the History of the Chinese Language
Peking University Press · 2025
This book examines the history of the Chinese language from the perspective of cultural institutions. It consists of two parts: one on institutions an…
Changes in Reading and the Transformation of Knowledge
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019
Taking examination preparation books of the late Qing dynasty as its object of study, this book seeks to reveal how the imperial examination system in…
Wenxin Reading · Classics Curriculum Series: The Scholars
Wenxin Publishing House · 2025
Wu Jingzi, courtesy name Minxuan, pseudonym Limin, was a Qing dynasty writer. His works include The Scholars, the Wenmu Mountain House Collection of P…
Yellow Locust Blossoms, Busy Candidates: Cultural Mirrors of Imperial Examination Idioms
The Commercial Press · 2025
The imperial examination system, established in the Sui and Tang dynasties and abolished in the late Qing, spanned more than 1,300 years and produced …
Prequel to the Gentry Class: Vagrants and Local Tyrants, the Imperial Examinations and Neo-Confucianism in the Northern and Southern Song
Shanghai Zhongxi Book Company Limited · 2025
Prehistory of the Gentry Class: Vagrants and Local Magnates, the Civil Examinations and Neo-Confucianism in the Two Song Dynasties is a revised editio…
Imperial Examinations and Selection
Modern Press · 2025
This book covers talent selection and assessment under Emperors Yao and Shun, talent cultivation and scholar selection measures in the Western Zhou, a…