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Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

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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.

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Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China 2013, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674724952

Hardcover