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A Draft History of the Evolution of the Recommendation System
Beijing Normal University Press · 2021
This book studies the recommendation system for selecting officials, which was established in the Han dynasty and eventually evolved into the imperial…
The Civil Service System in Ancient China (New 1st Edition)
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025
This book explores the composition, operation, and development of the bureaucratic management system in ancient China, focusing on origins and formati…
A Correct Account of the Imperial Examination
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2025
This book offers an objective account of the history of the Chinese imperial examination system, adopting a fact-based historical-materialist approach…
官制与选拔
Modern Press · 2025
This book covers the official system of the Spring and Autumn period, the selection and assessment of officials in the Spring and Autumn period, and t…
君臣之际：中国古代的政权与学术
Peking University Press · 2025
This book focuses on four areas—"imperial power," "chancellor," "petty officials," and "recruitment of scholars"—and discusses certain features of gov…
A Study of the Civil Examination System in the Tang Dynasty
Peking University Press · 2025
The name keju (imperial examination) began in the Song dynasty. The Tang dynasty gongju system was also commonly called keju after the Song, because i…
Chinese Symbols: The Chinese Imperial Examination
Hohai University Press · 2025
The "Chinese Symbols" series is a comprehensive and refined popular reading set on traditional Chinese culture. It selects cultural symbols that have …
Knowing Song: The Imperial Examinations of the Song Dynasty
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2024
The Chinese nation has a civilization history of over five thousand years,and every stage of its development has its own distinctive historical signif…
Golden Mirror for Taking Office
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought are especially dis…
The Imperial Examination and Literature in the Song Dynasty (Hardcover)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2023
The imperial examination was a system in premodern China for selecting officials through examinations. Scholars of the Tang and Song dynasties had alr…
The Official Selection System and the Rise and Fall of Literary Fortune in the Northern and Southern Dynasties (2 Volumes)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2023
Civil service selection in the Northern and Southern Dynasties was closely bound up with men of letters, and the link between the two is both objectiv…
Several Aspects of the Civil Official Selection and Appointment System in the Song Dynasty (Revised Edition)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2021
This book explores the main features of the Song dynasty official appointment system, including the departments and regulations concerning selection a…
Official Selection and Literature in the Tang Dynasty
Zhonghua Book Company · 2021
Imperial selection (quanxuan) refers on the one hand to the screening and recruitment of those not yet in office and on the other to the assessment of…
A Study of the Nine-Rank System: Prehistory of the Imperial Examination
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
A must-read in Japanese Sinology and in the political and institutional history of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang …
The Nine-Rank System and the Aristocratic Clans of the Six Dynasties
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2020
This volume collects the renowned historian Yang Yunru's monograph on the Nine-Rank System, together with four appendices. The title essay, "The Nine-…
Perhaps the Same: Collected Papers on Medieval History
Zhonghua Book Company · 2020
This volume collects 30 representative essays by the author. The first 19 are topical studies focusing on the literati class, scholarly trends, region…
Official Systems Through the Ages (Part II)
Liaohai Publishing House · 2025
Chinese culture is a peace-loving culture that upholds the ideal personality of the golden mean. When diverse cultures meet, it excels at fusion, free…
Official Systems Through the Ages (Part I)
Liaohai Publishing House · 2025
Chinese culture is a culture that values peace and upholds the ideal personality of the golden mean. When diverse cultures meet, it excels at fusion, …
Complete Record of Top Scholars (Volume One)
Liaohai Publishing House · 2025
Built on the latest Chinese historiography, China History Encyclopedia weaves the rich textual and visual record of China's long civilization into a v…
Wide-Ranging Talks on the History of the Imperial Examinations and Top Scholars
Liaohai Publishing House · 2025
Drawing on an extensive body of authoritative historical works, this series weaves together the rich textual and visual material bequeathed by China's…