"Geschichte 1400-1900." . . "Electronic books." . . "Electronic books" . "Öffentlicher Dienst." . . "Civil service Examinations" . . "Civil service Examinations." . "Fonction publique Chine Examens Histoire." . . "EDUCATION Testing & Measurement." . . "Prüfung." . . "POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Affairs & Administration." . . "Bildungswesen." . . "Civil service China Examinations History." . . "China" . . "China." . . "\"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." . . "Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China"@en . "Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China" . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . "Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China" . "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." . "History"@en . "History" . "Examinations" . . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . . . . . . "Online-Publikation" . . . . . . "Biographical note: Benjamin A. Elman, Princeton University." . . . . . . "Fonction publique Concours Chine Histoire." . .