Search Results for: A Cultural History Of Civil Examinations In Late Imperial China

In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-19

During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds spr

In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as

Written by one of the foremost historians of Chinese institutions, this book focuses on China's civil service examination system in its final and most elaborate