Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
067472495X
ISBN-13
9780674724952
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 2013
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
764 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.30 x 3.10 cms
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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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