TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elman,Benjamin A.
TI  - Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China /Benjamin A. Elman
SN  - 9780674726048
AV  - JQ1512 .C585 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Civil service
KW  - China
KW  - Examinations
KW  - History
KW  - Asia-Pacific
KW  - Culture and History of non-European Territories
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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