Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China - - Benjamin A. Elman - Hardback Bog - Harvard University Press - 2013 - Engelsk -
Brand: Harvard University Press
Description
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.
