Localizing learning : the literati enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100-1600 / Peter K. Bol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bol, Peter Kees, author.

Series:

Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 130.

Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 130

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jinhua Shi (China)--History.

Jinhua Shi (China).

Jinhua Shi (China)--Intellectual life.

Learning and scholarship--China--Jinhua Shi--History.

Learning and scholarship.

Intellectuals--China--Jinhua Shi--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Elite (Social sciences)--China--Jinhua Shi--History.

Elite (Social sciences).

China--Intellectual life--960-1644.

China.

Intellectual life.

China--Jinhua Shi.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 393 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge (Massachusetts) ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, 2022.

Summary:

"This book is set in one locality, Wuzhou (later Jinhua), a prefecture in China's Zhejiang province, from the twelfth through the sixteenth century. Its main actors are literati of the Song, Yuan, and Ming, who created a local tradition of learning as a means of cementing their common identity and their claim to moral, political, and cultural leadership. Why did they do this? Localizing Learning combines close readings of philosophical and literary texts with quantitative analysis of social and kinship networks to consider why and how the local literati enterprise was built. As the first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning shows how literati learning in Wuzhou came to encompass examination studies, Neo-Confucian moral philosophy, historical and Classical scholarship, encyclopedic learnedness, and literary writing, and traces how debates over the relative value of moral cultivation, cultural accomplishment, and political service unfolded locally. By treating learning as the subject, it broadens our perspective, going beyond a history of ideas to investigate the social practices and networks of kinship and collegiality with which literati defined themselves in local, regional, and national contexts"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of tables, maps, and figures

Acknowledgments

Note to readers

Introduction: localizing literati learning

Lü Zuqian in Song

Literary politics

Three category books

Daoxue

Coping with conquest in Yuan

Collegiality and kinship

Revival and division in Ming

An ending and a beginning

Appendix 2.1: Books by Daoxue authors

Appendix 2.2: Books by authors not associated with Daoxue

Appendix 4.1: Wang Bo's books

Appendix 6.1: Data from the China biographical database

Appendix 6.2: Wuzhou biographical and literary anthologies

Appendix 8.1: Hu Yinglin's known writings

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674267930

0674267931

OCLC:

1275432792