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Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China

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  • ""During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather 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."--book jacket."
  • "Main description: 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."
  • "Biographical note: Benjamin A. Elman, Princeton University."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Examinations"
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Online-Publikation"

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  • "Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China"@en
  • "Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China"
  • "Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China"

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