Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China / Benjamin A. Elman.

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Elman, Benjamin A, 1946- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 401 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780674726048
0674726049

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China.DDC classification:

352.6/3076 23

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JQ1512.Z13 E8721115 2013eb

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Contents:

Part I. Becoming mainstream : "way learning" during the late empire -- part II. Unintended consequences of civil examinations -- part III. Retooling civil examinations to suit changing times.

Summary: Benjamin Elman describes how education, examinations, and civil service fostered the world's first professional class based on demonstrated knowledge. Chinese civil examinations, a piece of social engineering worked out over centuries, prefigured the regime of meritocratic exams that undergirds higher education around the globe today.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Part I. Becoming mainstream : "way learning" during the late empire -- part II. Unintended consequences of civil examinations -- part III. Retooling civil examinations to suit changing times.

Benjamin Elman describes how education, examinations, and civil service fostered the world's first professional class based on demonstrated knowledge. Chinese civil examinations, a piece of social engineering worked out over centuries, prefigured the regime of meritocratic exams that undergirds higher education around the globe today.

In English.

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