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Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China / Benjamin A. Elman.
Elman, Benjamin A., author.
2013
JQ1512.Z13 E8721115 2013eb
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Title Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China / Benjamin A. Elman.
Author Elman, Benjamin A., author.
ISBN 9780674726048
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726048
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 2 halftones, 20 line illustrations, 2 maps, 14 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674726048 doi
Call Number JQ1512.Z13 E8721115 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 352.6/3076
Summary During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men gathered by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service in fostering the world's first professional class based on demonstrated knowledge and skill. Civil examinations were instituted in China in the seventh century CE, but in the Ming and Qing eras they were at the center of a complex social web that held together the intellectual, political, and economic life of imperial China. Local elites and the court sought to influence how the government regulated the classical curriculum and selected civil officials. As a guarantor of educational merit, examinations tied the dynasty to the privileged gentry and literati classes--both ideologically and institutionally. China eliminated its classical examination system in 1905. But this carefully balanced, constantly contested piece of social engineering, worked out over centuries, was an early harbinger of the meritocratic regime of college boards and other entrance exams that undergirds higher education in much of the world today.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Conventions
Introduction
Part I Becoming Mainstream: "Way Learning" during the Late Empire
1. Ming Imperial Power, Cultural Politics, and Civil Examinations
2. Ming to Qing: "Way Learning" Standards and the 8- Legged Essay
Part II Unintended Consequences of Civil Examinations
3. Circulation of Ming- Qing Elites
4. Classical Literacy in Late Imperial China
5. Anxiety, Dreams, and the Examination Life
Part III Retooling Civil Examinations to Suit Changing Times
6. Limits of Dynastic Power
7. From Ming to Qing Policy Questions
8. Curricular Reform: From Qing to the Taipings
Appendixes
1. Dates of Chinese Dynasties
2. Emperors of the Great Ming (1368- 1644)
3. Emperors of the Great Qing (1644- 1911)
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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