LEADER 03338nam 2200589 450 001 9910465137703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-72693-6 010 $a0-674-72604-9 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674726048 035 $a(CKB)3710000000054662 035 $a(EBL)3301341 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000941173 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11473291 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000941173 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10963555 035 $a(PQKB)10344073 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301341 035 $a(DE-B1597)209584 035 $a(OCoLC)862745956 035 $a(OCoLC)979579384 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674726048 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301341 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10782446 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000054662 100 $a20130418d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCivil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China /$fBenjamin A. Elman 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-72495-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apart I. Becoming mainstream : "way learning" during the late empire -- part II. Unintended consequences of civil examinations -- part III. Retooling civil examinations to suit changing times. 330 $aDuring China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men gathered by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service in fostering the world's first professional class based on demonstrated knowledge and skill. Civil examinations were instituted in China in the seventh century CE, but in the Ming and Qing eras they were at the center of a complex social web that held together the intellectual, political, and economic life of imperial China. Local elites and the court sought to influence how the government regulated the classical curriculum and selected civil officials. As a guarantor of educational merit, examinations tied the dynasty to the privileged gentry and literati classes--both ideologically and institutionally. China eliminated its classical examination system in 1905. But this carefully balanced, constantly contested piece of social engineering, worked out over centuries, was an early harbinger of the meritocratic regime of college boards and other entrance exams that undergirds higher education in much of the world today. 606 $aCivil service$zChina$xExaminations$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivil service$xExaminations$xHistory. 676 $a352.6/3076 700 $aElman$b Benjamin A.$f1946-$0934862 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465137703321 996 $aCivil examinations and meritocracy in late Imperial China$92486214 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$23.75$u11/21/2019$5Poli LEADER 01201nam a22002771i 4500 001 991001391829707536 005 20031110104045.0 008 040407s1971 it a||||||||||||||||ita 035 $ab12763147-39ule_inst 035 $aARCHE-074277$9ExL 040 $aDip.to Scienze Storiche$bita$cA.t.i. Arché s.c.r.l. Pandora Sicilia s.r.l. 082 04$a759.5 100 1 $aBuonarroti, Michelangelo$d<1475-1564>$06075 245 12$aL'opera completa di Michelangelo pittore /$cpresentazione di Salvatore Quasimodo ; apparati critici e filologici di Ettore Camesasca 260 $aMilano :$bRizzoli,$c[1971] 300 $a112 p. :$bill. ;$c31 cm 440 0$aClassici dell'arte 600 14$aBuonarroti, Michelangelo$xOpere pittoriche$vCataloghi 700 1 $aCamesasca, Ettore 700 1 $aQuasimodo, Salvatore$eauthor$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0152713 907 $a.b12763147$b02-04-14$c16-04-04 912 $a991001391829707536 945 $aLE009 LA Coll. 8/1$g1$i2009000173668$lle009$o-$pE0.00$q-$rn$so $t0$u1$v0$w1$x0$y.i13304318$z16-04-04 996 $aOpera completa di Michelangelo pittore$91447603 997 $aUNISALENTO 998 $ale009$b16-04-04$cm$da $e-$fita$git $h2$i1