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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

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

A study of how China’s changing economy may leave its rural communities in the dust and launch a political and economic disaster. As the glittering skyline in

Gift of Dr. John Matzko (BJU History Faculty).

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