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Local Government Schools in Sung China: A Reassessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Yuan Zheng
Yuan Zheng*
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Guangdong Provincial Academy of Social Sciences
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Inscriptions on excavated oracle bones and tortoise shells confirm that formal education existed in China as early as the Shang dynasty (roughly 1480–1066 B.C.). Historical data show that Emperor P'ing-ti of the Han dynasty established a countrywide government school system in 3 A.D., consisting of a central school in the capital and local schools in prefectures and counties. Over the next nineteen centuries, the school system developed gradually, sometimes damaged by war but soon restored, until the introduction of the modern Western system in the early twentieth century.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 193 - 213
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Copyright © 1994 by the History of Education Society 

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