Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China
Benjamin A. Elman
Harvard University Press, 2013
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780674724952
- ISBN-10
- 067472495X
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 2013
- Publication date
- 2013-11-01
- Pages
- 416
- Dimensions
- 235x163x31
- Weight
- 764