Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

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Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China is written by Benjamin A. Elman and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674726936 (ISBN 10) and 9780674726932 (ISBN 13).

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.