Elman, Benjamin A.,  1946- <br/><br/>
Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China /Benjamin A. Elman. 

 - Cambridge, Massachusetts ;  London, England :  Harvard University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 401 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674726048 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civil service--Examinations--History.--China<br/>Asia-Pacific.<br/>Civil service--Examinations.<br/>Civil service--China--Examinations--History.<br/>Culture and History of non-European Territories.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JQ1512  / .C585 2013