National Academy
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- Chinese: 国学 (guóxué) 国子監 (guózǐjiàn)
The National Academy, also known as the Imperial Academy or by a variety of other English translations, was the chief educational institution in Ming and Qing Dynasty Beijing. A small number of Ryukyuan students from the scholar-aristocracy of the Ryûkyû Kingdom studied there as well.
Known earlier as the Guóxué, it later came to be known as Guózǐjiàn.
References
- Benjamin Elman, A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China, University of California Press (2000), 144.
