Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China
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Erschienen am 1. November 2013
416 Seiten
978-0-674-72604-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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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Englisch
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Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
USA
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Für Beruf und Forschung
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2 halftones, 20 line illustrations, 2 maps, 14 tables
2 halftones, 20 line illustrations, 2 maps, 14 tables
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978-0-674-72604-8 (9780674726048)
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Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China
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Harvard University Press
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ElmanBenjamin A.: Benjamin A. Elman is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University.
ElmanBenjamin A.: Benjamin A. Elman is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University.
ElmanBenjamin A.: Benjamin A. Elman is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University.
Inhalt
- Intro
- 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
