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Institutional Borrowing: The Case of the Chinese Civil Service Examination System in Early Koryŏ
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 34 (1): 109–125.
Published: 01 November 1974
..., the civil service examination system ( k‘o-chü in Chinese and kwagŏ in Korean), introduced in 958 by King Kwangjong (r. 949–975) of the Koryŏ Dynasty (918–1392), constitutes perhaps the most engrossing case of institutional borrowing in traditional Korea. Aside from its long-range consequences for Korean...
View articletitled, Institutional Borrowing: The Case of the Chinese <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">Service</span> <span class="search-highlight">Examination</span> System in Early Koryŏ
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Imperial Japan's Higher Civil Service Examinations
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 645–646.
Published: 01 May 1968
...Frank O. Miller Imperial Japan's Higher Civil Service Examinations . By Robert M. Spaulding Jr. , Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 1967 . xiv, 324 pp. Tables, Appendices, Index. $10.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127–1279)
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 547–549.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Hoyt Cleveland Tillman Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127–1279) . By Hilde De Weerdt . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xvi , 495 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...
View articletitled, Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">Service</span> <span class="search-highlight">Examinations</span> in Imperial China (1127–1279)
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Political, Social, and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations in Late Imperial China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (1): 7–28.
Published: 01 February 1991
...Benjamin A. Elman Abstract Most previous scholarship about the civil service examination system in imperial China has emphasized the degree of social mobility such examinations permitted in a premodern society. In the same vein, historians have evaluated the examination process in late imperial...
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Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2025) 84 (2): 538–539.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Lawrence Zhang [email protected] Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China . By En Li . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2023 . xxiii, 348 pp. ISBN: 9780674293779 . © 2025 Association for Asian Studies 2025 En Li's...
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Literati of the Garrisons: The Civil Service Translation Examination and Manchu Literary-Intellectual Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 339–361.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Nathan Vedal Abstract Conventionally characterized as a perfunctory exercise established to bolster the ranks of Manchu officials, the Qing dynasty civil service translation examination, and its accompanying curriculum of literary and classical training, played a major role in the development...
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Life in the Schools of Sung China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 November 1977
...Thomas H. C. Lee Abstract The profound impact of the civil service examinations upon students' lives marks one of the most important developments in Sung education. During the Sung, the whole process of education gradually became geared to the purpose and demands of the examinations; the new...
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The Ritual Formation of Confucian Orthodoxy and the Descendants of the Sage
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 559–584.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Thomas A. Wilson Abstract This essay explores the ritual dimension of the formation of Confucian orthodoxy in China from around the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. Recent scholarship on orthodoxy has shown how the civil service examination system bound together hundreds of thousands...
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The Influence of Jurchen Rule on Chinese Political Institutions
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 30 (1): 121–130.
Published: 01 November 1970
... organization, the degradation of scholar-officials by inflicting corporal punishment, and the transformation of the censorate into an imperial instrument. The alien rules also adopted and modified the Chinese civil service examination system to stabilize their regime. The Chin, as a successor state...
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The Problem of Recruitment for the Indian Civil Service During the Late Nineteenth Century
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 February 1971
... Service Examination ,” Oxford Magazine , XIV (Oct. 30, 1895 ), p. 41
. 43 “ The Civil Service Competition of 1897 ,” Oxford Magazine , XV (Nov. 3, 1897 ), p. 47 f . 44
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Financial Expertise, Examinations, and the Formulation of Economic Policy in Northern Sung China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 281–314.
Published: 01 February 1971
... of economic policy. These attributes were tested in the civil service recruitment examinations and used as criteria for the recommendation and assignment of men to fiscal posts. The resulting consistency and predictability in legislation was a significant aspect of material progress in eleventh century China...
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Speaking on Behalf of the Korean King: Rhetorical Education and Political Imagination in Early Modern China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 549–569.
Published: 01 November 2023
... others in a hierarchical world order. [email protected] © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 rhetoric political imagination civil service examination Ming China Chosŏn Korea Ye Xianggao 葉向高 (1559–1627) was a prominent statesman in seventeenth-century global politics. As chief...
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E. A. Kracke, Jr. (1908—1976)
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 496–498.
Published: 01 May 1977
... in Chinese Civil Service Examinations under the Empire," he began for the first time to give shape and body to the vague notions then held about the role of the civil service examinations in pre-Ch'ing times. In 1953, he followed with a full book on the sub- OBITUARIES 497 ject, Civil Service in Early Sung...
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The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village, 1857–1942
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (1): 163–165.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of modernization kicking and screaming. With a provincial-level degree from the traditional civil-service examination, his leadership of the county assembly in the early republic, and his career in business, Liu, we might expect, would have been in the forefront of change. But instead, we see a man who thought...
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Japan's First Modern Novel: Ukigumo of Futabatei Shimei
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 644–645.
Published: 01 May 1968
... that the process of modernization, which destroyed the civil service examinations in China, gave rise to such a system in Japan. Given the elitist structure of Japanese society and its preference for personalized relationships of service and patronage, this was by no means a foregone conclusion. But the practice...
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Chang Chih-tung and Educational Reform in China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 31 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 November 1971
... school system extending from kindergarten through university, abolition of the obsolete military examinations, and at first modification and later (1905) abolition of the traditional civil service examinations providing for the selection of officials thereafter from the graduates of modern schools...
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Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 401–402.
Published: 01 May 1987
... purposes is to argue against throwing the ritsuryo state too soon on the scrap heap of history. Michizane himself, a scholarly official from a lesser court family who rose to prominence through the university and the civil service examination, became the last great representative of the ritsuryo state...
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Court and Family in Sung China (960–1279): Bureaucratic Success and Kinship Fortunes for the Shih of Ming-chou
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (4): 902–903.
Published: 01 November 1987
... of the Shihs. Davis's account begins in the early eleventh century, with the arrival in Ningpo (Ming-chou) of the founder of the Shih descent group. The history of the first four generations of the Shihs illuminates a long-standing debate among Sung historians about the impact of the civil service examinations...
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Generals and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 574–576.
Published: 01 May 2001
... is evident in the continued importance of the examination system. While there was a heavy infusion of military men into the civil dynastic structure, the majority of officials remained civilians and most of these civil officials had passed the government civil service examinations. The author goes so far...
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Shina mihunhō shi
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 11 (3): 384–386.
Published: 01 May 1952
... for the most part successful candidates in civil service examinations. Their classical learning and administrative ability required imperial recognition. They did not always come from rich and powerful families, although they often belonged to the middle or higher classes. Degrees and appointments gave them...
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