Civil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China / Benjamin A. Elman.
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...
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[2013]
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