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Civil-Service Examination—China Summary
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China's examination system started during the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) and continued until it was abolished by the dowager empress Cixi (1835–1908) in 1905. By the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the civilservice examination...
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Imperial examination Information
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The Imperial examinations (traditional Chinese: 科舉; pinyin: kējǔ) in Imperial China determined who among the population would be permitted to enter the state's bureaucracy. The Imperial Examination System in China lasted for 1300 years, from its...


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International Journal of Comparative Sociology
A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China. (book review)
11/01/2001: 713 words, approx. 2 pages
Benjamin A. Elman, A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, pp. 889. Cloth $75.00. The Chinese scholar-bureaucrat holds a unique position in world history. In no other civilization or political entity have the educated...
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Changing minds through examinations: examination critics in late imperial China.(Report)
07/01/2006: 6,854 words, approx. 23 pages
At a time when conferences and panels are commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the imperial Chinese civil service examinations, we should be reminded that criticisms of the examinations are nearly as old as the examinations themselves. Critical evaluations of the...
 


 

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