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Academy is a form of special education organization in Chinese history. It sprouted in the Tang Dynasty, was formed in the Song Dynasty, and was abolished and reformed in the late Qing Dynasty. After more than a thousand years, it has an important historical position in the history of Chinese civilization. This book comprehensively describes the historical process of the origin, development and evolution of Chinese academies, introduces the famous teachers and students of the academies in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as an overview of the academies in terms of organization and management, teaching, worship, book collection, book engraving, architectural structure and financial revenue and expenditure. It highlights the important significance of the academies in promoting the development of the history of academic thought, literature, bookdom and education in China.

This book begins with the emergence of schools in the late primitive society and tells the history of the development of school education in China from the Xia Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty. It is proposed that schools began to appear in the Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty in Chinese history. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, schools had initially formed a set of academic systems and management systems. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, private schools emerged and developed. After the Han Dynasty, the feudal school education system initially took shape, and after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it continued to develop and improve, forming a feudal school education model consisting of official schools, private schools, and academies. After 1840, with the invasion of foreign capitalism and the emergence of modern schools similar to those in the West, the feudal school education model was broken, and Chinese school education began to transform. After the Guimao academic system was promulgated in 1903, it was eventually replaced by the modern academic system. The rich heritage of Chinese education, which has a long history, can be critically absorbed by modern people, and it also has certain reference significance for today's educational reform.