{"product_id":"unlocking-the-treasury-elementary-learning-for-boys-in-qing-china-9781643150741","title":"Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China","description":"In recent years, the renewed interest in traditional Chinese elementary educational material has led to an increased use of these texts as teaching materials in Chinese schools, as well as popular literature and in academic research. \u003ci\u003eUnlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to address the existing gap in Western scholarship regarding pre-modern Chinese primary education, its theories, and textbooks. With a focus on the Qing dynasty textbook, \u003ci\u003eTreasury of Elementary Learning (Youxue qionglin\u003c\/i\u003e 幼學瓊林\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e, this volume is the first major study of the Treasury in English and reveals a rich tradition of education through close and critical readings of the text. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnlocking the Treasury\u003c\/i\u003e grounds its study of primary education in the intellectual history of the period. Using the concept of interpretive communities, Katherine Ngo explores the impact of socio-political influences and differences in Qing schools of thought, including the school of principle, the school of heart-mind, and practical learning. As such, this volume examines the \u003ci\u003eTreasury\u003c\/i\u003e through three critical readings of the text: as a handbook for practical learning, a child-oriented reading of the school of heart-mind, and the instrumental perspective of education as examination training. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ngo reframes the curricular content, skills, learning approaches, and teaching strategies of Chinese pre-modern elementary education with the goal of facilitating a broader transcultural dialogue in contemporary education. Far from the notion of traditional Chinese elementary education being monolithic and \"rote learning,\" \u003ci\u003eUnlocking the Treasury \u003c\/i\u003ereveals that elementary learning in the Qing dynasty offered a sophisticated and complex educational agenda with diverse learning goals of examination, preparation, moral development, and textual scholarship training that were shaped by intellectual trends of the time. An engaging text for scholars of Qing China and historians of education alike, Katherine Ngo's \u003ci\u003eUnlocking the Treasury \u003c\/i\u003eis essential to understanding the philosophical, historical, literary, and psychological dimensions of education and educational theory in the Qing era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Ngo\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer of Ancient Chinese Literature at the Academy of Sinology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Her research interest is in the educational theories and practices of pre-modern and early modern Chinese didactic literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lever Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183469691154,"sku":"9781643150741","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5ca98394-a764-43ed-af0f-4efa0eebdb3b.jpg?v=1744468088","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unlocking-the-treasury-elementary-learning-for-boys-in-qing-china-9781643150741","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}