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Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China
- Binding:
- Hardback
- Pages:
- 416
- Published:
- October 31, 2013
- Dimensions:
- 163x235x31 mm.
- Weight:
- 764 g.
Delivery:
2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 20, 2024
Description of Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China
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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