Learning to Rule - Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 18611912

Daniel Barish explores debates surrounding the education of the final three Qing emperors, showing how imperial curricula became proxy battles for divergent visions of how to restabilize the country. Through the lens of the education of young emperors, Learning to Rule develops a new understanding of the late Qing era.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. New Forms of Learning for a New Age of Imperial Rule, 1861–1874
2. The Malleability of Youth: Guangxu in the Classroom, 1875–1890
3. Putting Lessons Into Practice: Guangxu on the Throne, 1891–1898
4. Cixi’s Pedagogy: Female Education and Constitutional Governance, 1898–1908
5. Learning to Be a Constitutional Monarch, 1908–1912
Conclusion: Emperor and Nation in Modern China
Character Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Daniel Barish is assistant professor of history at Baylor University.

Summary

Daniel Barish explores debates surrounding the education of the final three Qing emperors, showing how imperial curricula became proxy battles for divergent visions of how to restabilize the country. Through the lens of the education of young emperors, Learning to Rule develops a new understanding of the late Qing era.

Additional text

Based on a wide range of sources, Daniel Barish’s eminently readable investigation of the people and issues surrounding the education of the three child-emperors of the late Qing dynasty is deeply insightful. He offers key new perspectives on the survival of the Qing into the twentieth century, the evolving political views of the educated classes, and the global forces at work in an era of nationalizing monarchies.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Barish
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780231203296
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20329-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Asia / China, c 1800 to c 1900, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Asian History, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General