The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: Rowe, William T. | Copyright information

The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China. By Iona D. Man-Cheong. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 298. $55.00.)

The imperial Chinese civil service examination was, from the perspective of the throne, a wondrously enabling instrument. It was a satisfactory means of bureaucratic recruitment, generating a steady supply of competent men to staff the empire's several thousand official posts. It provided, subject to the...

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