Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China

by Evelyn Sakakida Rawski

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (1979).

First edition.

Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

A study of education and literacy among the masses of Chinese who did not aspire to compete in the elite civil service examinations, by American educator Evelyn Sakakida Rawski (born 1939). Professor Rawski shows that in 18th and 19th century China a broad range of the male populace, peasants as well as urbanites, learned to read and write. The spread of basic literacy was encouraged by its usefulness in everyday life, due to low educational costs. Because of this, the literacy rate in 19th century China was similar to that of Tokugawa Japan, and probably higher than in most parts of pre-industrial Europe. A very well researched study. 

Brownish-grey cloth boards with gilt-stamped titles to spine and gilt-stamped illustration to cover. Blue dust jacket with white and black titles.

Octavo: (6-1/4" by 9-1/8"). 294 pages, including index.

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