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Competition over Content

Hardcover • 2007 • English

Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127–1279) (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

By Hilde De Weerdt

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Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the civil service examinations created and maintained political coherence across the Chinese polity. Preparation for the examinations transformed the lives of literate elites by defining educational standards and disseminating a language that determined elite status. However, as participation in the examinations became central to that status, an intense competition to determine the educational curriculum and the subject matter of the examinations erupte...Show more

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9780674025882

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Harvard University Asia Center

Published year

2007

Language

English

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Competition over Content

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Hardcover

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