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The research leading to these results received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme / ERC-StG 637695 - HinDI, as part of the project “The historical dynamics of industrialization in Northwestern Europe and China ca. 1800–2010: a regional interpretation”.
Cover illustration: Displayed is the left part of the eighteenth-century remake of the twelfth-century original painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan. The remake is created by five Qing dynasty court painters (Chen Mu, Sun Hu, Jin Kun, Dai Hong and Cheng Zhidao) and is currently in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The painting captures the daily life of people and the landscape of the capital, Bianjing (today’s Kaifeng) from the Northern Song period. Licensed under public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wang, Meimei, author. | Leeuwen, Bas van, author. | Li, Jieli, author.
Title: Education in China, ca. 1840–present / By Meimei Wang, Bas van Leeuwen, Jieli Li.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: Global economic history series, 1872–5155 ; Volume 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020036031 (print) | LCCN 2020036032 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004437708 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004442252 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Education—China—History.
Classification: LCC LA1131 .W3345 2021 (print) | LCC LA1131 (ebook) | DDC 370.951—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036031
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036032
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ISSN 1872-5155
ISBN 978-90-04-43770-8 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-44225-2 (e-book)
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