TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Ming Reign Periods One: Introduction Two: Shaky Foundations: the Early Ming The Myth of the Ming Founder Invention? Abolition? Obeying the Law? Preserving the Laws? The Early Ming in the Historiography of Community Schools Three: Borders and Bureaucrats: the Middle Ming Memorials The Civilizing Mission Revising the Founder's Vision Testing the Impact of Edicts Four: Heros of the High Ming Whose Responsibility? The Rhetoric of Commemorative Records Wo Pan, 1481: A Gazetteer Records Adaption of Hongwu Institutions Zhang Bi, 1478: Idols Consigned to Water and Fire The Attack on Improper Shrines Intolerance and Syncretism Explaining Heroism Xu Jie, 1533: Exploiting Heroism Two poems on community schools. Five: Philosophy and Politics in Community School Curricula The Basic Curriculum Wang Yangming: Moral Development Gui E: The Separate Hall System Wei Jiao: The Compound System No Family Left Behind The Unity of Knowledge and Practice Education and Autocracy Six: Community Schools in Ming Society Pupils Teachers Funding Buildings A Mixed Blessing Seven: The Locality Fights Back: the Late Ming Localizing Gazetteers Reviving Temples Taking Charge The Complex of Local Institutions Local History and Ming State Institutions Eight: Conclusion Community Schools and Ming Autocracy The Ming State Appendices Eight books included in Great Instruction Records analyzed in chapter four, in chronological order Translations of three commemorative records Tables Glossary Bibliographies Gazetteers Other works cited Gazetteers consulted by Wang Lanyin Index
Sarah Schneewind is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
"Sarah Schneewind must be thanked for producing a clearly argued, comprehensive, and up-to-date study on the subject. This book will be most useful for anyone interested in Ming political and social history."--Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies "... a substantial, refined, and very readable analysis of the development and significance of village elementary schools, called 'community schools' shexue, in Ming China (1368-1644)." - New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies "..meticulously researched and eloquently written..." - American Historical Review
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