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Format: 1 online resource (312 pages)

ISBN: 9780804767132

Content: A rich and engaging study of one graduating class of the imperial examination system of eighteenth-century China.

Content: Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Meanings of Examination -- 2 Regulating Aspirations -- 3 Rites of Spring -- 4 Fair Fraud and Fraudulent Fairness -- 5 Paths to Glory -- Coda -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- Character List -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780804741460

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804741460

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8047-6713-0 , 1-4175-8047-X

Content: The Class of 1761 reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from the unique perspective of a single graduating class. The author follows the students' struggles in negotiating the examination system along with bureaucratic intrigue and intellectual conflict, as well as their careers across the Empire—to the battlefields of imperial expansion in Annam and Tibet, the archives where the glories of the empire were compiled, and back to the chambers where they in turn became examiners for the next generation of aspirants. The book explores the rigors and flexibilities of the examination system as it disciplined men for political life and shows how the system legitimated both the Manchu throne and the majority non-Manchu elite. In the system's intricately articulated networks, we discern the stability of the Qing empire and the fault lines that would grow to destabilize it.

Note: Formerly CIP. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Tables and Figures -- , Acknowledgments -- , 1 The Meanings of Examination -- , 2 Regulating Aspirations -- , 3 Rites of Spring -- , 4 Fair Fraud and Fraudulent Fairness -- , 5 Paths to Glory -- , Coda DEFINITIONS OF FAILURE -- , APPENDIX 1 Grades for the Annual Examination -- , APPENDIX 2 Provincial Examination Quotas -- , APPENDIX 3 Number of Attempts for the Metropolitan Degree -- , APPENDIX 4 Price of Imperial College Studentships -- , APPENDIX 5 1761 Class List Organized by Class Number -- , Character List -- , REFERENCE MATTER -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8047-4146-8

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780804767132