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The Top Scholar from a Poor Family
A modern man, Shen Xi, wakes up one morning to find himself a six-year-old boy in a poor peasant household of the Ming dynasty—a family so impoverishe…
When I Was Young in Fine Clothes on a Galloping Horse
· 2023
Xiao Can, the youngest daughter of the Prince of Annan, tops the imperial examination and sets Luoyang astir. She sits for the exam disguised as a man…
Top Scholars of Successive Dynasties
Henan University Press · 2017
Part of the Chinese Cultural History series, The Imperial Examination Top Scholars Through the Dynasties explores a culture that prizes peace and the …