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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

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

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 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

Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since