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The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China
The Class of 1761 reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from the unique perspective of a single graduating class. The author follows the students' struggles in negotiating the examination system along with bureaucratic intrigue and intellectual conflict, as well as their careers across the Empire—to the battlefields of imperial expansion in Annam and Tibet, the archives where the glories of the empire were compiled, and back to the chambers where they in turn became examiners for the next generation of aspirants.

The book explores the rigors and flexibilities of the examination system as it disciplined men for political life and shows how the system legitimated both the Manchu throne and the majority non-Manchu elite. In the system's intricately articulated networks, we discern the stability of the Qing empire and the fault lines that would grow to destabilize it.

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The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China
The Class of 1761 reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from the unique perspective of a single graduating class. The author follows the students' struggles in negotiating the examination system along with bureaucratic intrigue and intellectual conflict, as well as their careers across the Empire—to the battlefields of imperial expansion in Annam and Tibet, the archives where the glories of the empire were compiled, and back to the chambers where they in turn became examiners for the next generation of aspirants.

The book explores the rigors and flexibilities of the examination system as it disciplined men for political life and shows how the system legitimated both the Manchu throne and the majority non-Manchu elite. In the system's intricately articulated networks, we discern the stability of the Qing empire and the fault lines that would grow to destabilize it.

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The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China

The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China

by Iona Man-Cheong
The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China
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The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China

The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China

by Iona Man-Cheong

Overview

The Class of 1761 reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from the unique perspective of a single graduating class. The author follows the students' struggles in negotiating the examination system along with bureaucratic intrigue and intellectual conflict, as well as their careers across the Empire—to the battlefields of imperial expansion in Annam and Tibet, the archives where the glories of the empire were compiled, and back to the chambers where they in turn became examiners for the next generation of aspirants.

The book explores the rigors and flexibilities of the examination system as it disciplined men for political life and shows how the system legitimated both the Manchu throne and the majority non-Manchu elite. In the system's intricately articulated networks, we discern the stability of the Qing empire and the fault lines that would grow to destabilize it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804741460
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 08/12/2004
Edition description: 1
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Iona D. Man-Cheong is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tablesix
Acknowledgmentsxi
1.The Meanings of Examination1
2.Regulating Aspirations25
3.Spring Rites57
4.Fair Fraud and Fraudulent Fairness107
5.Paths to Glory144
Coda: Definitions of Failure197
Appendix 1.Grades for the Annual Examination207
Appendix 2.Provincial Examination Quotas209
Appendix 3.Number of Attempts for the Metropolitan Degree210
Appendix 4.Price of Imperial College Studentships211
Appendix 5.1761 Class List212
Character List221
Reference Matter231
Notes233
Bibliography275
Index293
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