Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

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.

• | By (Author): Benjamin A. Elman (Author)
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2013
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 416 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 067472495X
• | ISBN-13: 9780674724952