Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China / Benjamin A. Elman.
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- JQ1512.Z13 E8721115 2013eb
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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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