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

By:

Elman, Benjamin A, 1946- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674726048

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

JQ1512 .C585 2013

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Contents:

part II. Unintended consequences of civil examinations -- part III. Retooling civil examinations to suit changing times.

Subject: 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 bibliographies and index.

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.

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