Challenge to the West: how the Chinese examination system created the modern world.(Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea and the Hazards of World History)(Book review) From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Literary Review of Canada, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea and the Hazards of World History Alexander Woodside Harvard University Press 142 pages, hardcover ISBN-13: 9780674022171 ISBN-10: 067022173

The Chinese civil examination system, for almost a millennium the chief method by which the emperor selected his officials, occupies a curious position in the history of western thought. Philosophers of the Enlightenment praised the exams as a sound basis for government, in contrast to their own society where heredity still determined who should rule. By the 19th century, though, the exams had come ...

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