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Magical Tome
- First published
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Pages
- 889 pages
- ISBN
- 9780520215092
A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China (Philip E. Lilienthal Book)
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About this book
This account of late imperial civil examinations begins by looking carefully at the historical conditions within which native and conquest dynasties appropriated the civil service and literati teachings (ju-hsueh, usually called Confucianism) in China before 1400.
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