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Founded in the 1820s, the Xuehaitang (Sea of Learning Hall) was a premier academy of its time. Miles examines the discourse that portrayed it as having radically altered Guangzhou literati culture. He argues that the academy's location embedded it in social settings that determined who used its resources and who celebrated its successes and values.

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Miles has written a history of intellectuals rather than an intellectual history; specifically, those supporting the 1817-1903 Xuehaitang (Sea of Learning Hall). Xuehaitang intellectuals transferred Jiangnan formulas of Han evidential learning to South China to challenge the dominant Song dynastic Cheng-Zhu Confucian school. Miles presents a fine analysis of these schools' competing views and also the acceptance by some of Han-Song syncretism. -- V. J. Symons * Choice *

The Sea of Learning

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/10/2006
      ISBN13: 9780674021341, 978-0674021341
      ISBN10: 0674021347

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      Book Synopsis
      Founded in the 1820s, the Xuehaitang (Sea of Learning Hall) was a premier academy of its time. Miles examines the discourse that portrayed it as having radically altered Guangzhou literati culture. He argues that the academy's location embedded it in social settings that determined who used its resources and who celebrated its successes and values.

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      Miles has written a history of intellectuals rather than an intellectual history; specifically, those supporting the 1817-1903 Xuehaitang (Sea of Learning Hall). Xuehaitang intellectuals transferred Jiangnan formulas of Han evidential learning to South China to challenge the dominant Song dynastic Cheng-Zhu Confucian school. Miles presents a fine analysis of these schools' competing views and also the acceptance by some of Han-Song syncretism. -- V. J. Symons * Choice *

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