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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 281–314.
Published: 01 February 1971
..., and they frequently were appointed to examining boards. The most important feature of the tests, the policy questions, were incorporated into the exams at all levels, and ultimately determined the rank of the examinees who passed. And placement was a crucial factor in the future course of a man's career. Study...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (3): 521–534.
Published: 01 May 1971
... although mobility only between various serf substatuses. The article examines the nature of the major serf sub-statuses and particularly focuses on the status of “human lease.” In a sense analagous to leasing land, the human-lease serf leased his personal freedom of movement and livelihood from his lord...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (3): 703–705.
Published: 01 May 1971
...John E. Brush Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 Regional Planning for Social Facilities: An Examination of Central Place Concepts and Their Application. A Case Study of Eastern Maharashtra . By Sudhir Wanmali . Hyderabad : National Institute of Community...
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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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (4): 1017–1020.
Published: 01 August 1975
... view since he is not encouraged to express it; and he must fabricate lives in fiction which neither he nor his reader really know at firsthand and which thus lack the authenticity demanded by the novel.” (p. 178) Review Article A LITERATURE EXAMINED IN TRANSLATION* For many years now, those of us...
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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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 February 1987
..., Tables, Appendixes, Notes, List of Characters, Bibliography, Index. $39-50. Government Education and Examinations in Sung China. By THOMAS H. C. LEE. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xi, 327 pp. Tables, Charts, Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary-Index. $32.50. The almost simultaneous publication...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1097–1099.
Published: 01 November 2004
... and longest tempo (chaps. 3 8) provides the reader with a both detailed and holistic overview of the Ming-Qing examination regime and curriculum, culminating in a fascinating descent into the maelstrom of emotional anxiety and dreams of success among the examinee population. The speed is molto lento: history...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 322–323.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Balmurli Natrajan Religion and Dalit Liberation: An Examination of Perspectives . By John C. B. Webster . New Delhi : Manohar Publications , 1999 . 124 pp. Rs.150, $18.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 322 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1357–1359.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Xiaobing Li Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954–1973 . Edited By Robert S. Ross and Jlang Changbin . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2001 . 504 pp. $25.00 (paper); $60.00 (cloth). BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 21 (1): 77–78.
Published: 01 November 1961
...David S. Nivison The Reform and Abolition of the Traditional Chinese Examination System . By Wolfgang Franke . Cambridge : Center for East Asian Studies, Harvard University , 1960 , viii, 100 . Notes, Sources. $2.50. (paper) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Fujiya Kawashima The Civil Examinations and the Social Structure in the Early Yi Dynasty Korea: 1392–1600 . By Yong-ho Ch'oe . Seoul : The Korean Research Center , 1987 . xii, 179 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 187 White...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (1): 7–28.
Published: 01 February 1991
..., the civil examination system persuaded rulers, elites, and commoners of the viability of the Confucian dream of public success and social mobility, thereby inducing misrecognition at all levels of its objective consequences. As an institution that since the Sung dynasties demanded anonymity for examinee...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (4): 611–635.
Published: 01 August 1978
... to the peasants—has seldom been a subject of systematic investigation. However, I suggest that examination of what makes peasants accept as leaders persons who are in many respects different from themselves may yield important insights into the nature of the problems of organizing peasants. 127 Interviews...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 453–454.
Published: 01 May 2005
... and the Chinese Communist Party since the 1950s, providing vital contextualization for this otherwise exhaustive study. EDWARD R. SLACK JR. Eastern Washington University The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China. By IONA MAN-CHEONG. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 434–437.
Published: 01 August 2023
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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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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (4): 611–631.
Published: 01 August 1974
...Yŏng-Ho Ch'oe Abstract The civil examination system in the Confucian state of Yi Dynasty Korea was an important channel of recruitment for government officials and the graduates of the civil examinations carried enormous power and prestige. The determination as to who participated...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 645–646.
Published: 01 May 1968
...Frank O. Miller Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 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. BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 802–803.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... Early Daoist Dietary Practices: Examining Ways to Health and Longevity . By Shawn Arthur . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2013 . ix, 276 pp. ISBN: 9780739178928 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 ...