In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within t...
In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within the dynastic government were usually filled through these difficult examinations, and every other year some one to two million people from all levels of society attempted them.
Covering the late imperial system from its inception to its demise, Elman revises our previous understanding of how the system actually worked, including its political and cultural machinery, the unforeseen consequences when it was unceremoniously scrapped by modernist reformers, and its long-term historical legacy. He argues that the Ming-Ch'ing civil examinations from 1370 to 1904 represented a substantial break with T'ang-Sung dynasty literary examinations from 650 to 1250. Late imperial examinations also made "Tao Learning," Neo-Confucian learning, the dynastic orthodoxy in official life and in literati culture. The intersections between elite social life, popular culture, and religion that are also considered reveal the full scope of the examination process throughout the late empire.
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本杰明·艾尔曼（BenjaminA. Elman），1980年获美国宾夕法尼亚大学东方学博士学位；先后担任加州大学洛杉矶分校副教授、教授（1986—2001），1999-2001年任普林斯顿高等研究院访问教授，2002年后任普林斯顿大学东亚系、历史系双聘教授（2002-2017，其中在东亚系为1958届胡应湘讲席教授），于2017年荣休。代表作有《经学、政治和宗族：中华帝国晚期常州今文学派研究》（Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China）、《从理学到朴学：中华帝国晚期思想与社会变迁》（From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual a...
本杰明·艾尔曼（BenjaminA. Elman），1980年获美国宾夕法尼亚大学东方学博士学位；先后担任加州大学洛杉矶分校副教授、教授（1986—2001），1999-2001年任普林斯顿高等研究院访问教授，2002年后任普林斯顿大学东亚系、历史系双聘教授（2002-2017，其中在东亚系为1958届胡应湘讲席教授），于2017年荣休。代表作有《经学、政治和宗族：中华帝国晚期常州今文学派研究》（Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China）、《从理学到朴学：中华帝国晚期思想与社会变迁》（From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China）、《科学在中国（1550-1900）》（On Their Own Terms: Science in China 1550-1900）以及本书，此外还与亚历山大•伍德赛德（Alexander Woodside）合编了《晚期帝制中国的教育与社会，1600-1900》（Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900）。
The Song dynasty (960– 1280) in particular inspired new educationalideals for the late empire, 1400– 900. Placed in their later socialand political contexts, we see why Chinese, regardless of class or gender,and both Mongol and Manchu rulers valorized a moral education that stressed the Learning of the “Way” (Daoxue, lit., “Way learning”; called “Neo- Confucianism” starting in the twentieth century).Because its content and meaning varied widely, education meant diff erent things to diff erent constituencies. The late imperial government represented an asymmetrical overlap of interests among the ruling house, state bureaucracy,and elite literati families. Ming and Qing dynasty elites ominated
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《读书》2021年5期新刊 这是一部迟了二十年才译成中文出版的大著作。二〇〇一年，艾尔曼（Benjamin Elman）教授就在美国加州大学出版社出版了这本《晚期帝制中国的科举文化史》（A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China），在我看来，它是海外学者有...
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关于这本2000年出版的科举文化史，部分观点在九十年代已经发表过了。关于科举制度，一般讨论的焦点在如何看待科举与制造社会流动性方面。在上世纪90年代初，艾尔曼在发表了《从理学到朴学》和《经学政治与宗族》后，先后发表了两篇文章，一篇是Political, Social, and Cultural...
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经典
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大致翻了一遍，2013年的Civil Examinations and Meritocracy是这本书的精简版
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纪念（发泄）一下我（花了三年）翻完了这本书（的其中三章），抱歉拖累了战友…处理明清部分的时候满脑子都是“内卷”，人越来越多，坑就那么几个，然后你懂的。本书把科举看作是统治者与士绅阶层互相制衡和共谋的产物，它在确保一定程度的公开公平的同时，不可避免地向掌握社会主要教育资源的士商家族倾斜（想象一下农业家庭一个男性十年寒窗苦读所要投入的时间、劳力和文化成本），最终结果依然是既得利益小团体的产生，社会阶层... 纪念（发泄）一下我（花了三年）翻完了这本书（的其中三章），抱歉拖累了战友…处理明清部分的时候满脑子都是“内卷”，人越来越多，坑就那么几个，然后你懂的。本书把科举看作是统治者与士绅阶层互相制衡和共谋的产物，它在确保一定程度的公开公平的同时，不可避免地向掌握社会主要教育资源的士商家族倾斜（想象一下农业家庭一个男性十年寒窗苦读所要投入的时间、劳力和文化成本），最终结果依然是既得利益小团体的产生，社会阶层流动非常有限。当然反过来说，家族也需要稳定地生产科举中第者才能长期维持其地位。科举同时还保障了社会稳定与思想控制，但，我觉得那时人活得挺压抑的。本书还把科举当成一门“技艺”，以实用主义视角分析古人赢得科举需要掌握哪些技巧，这或许更贴合实际，所谓的古典德性在科举考试机器的现实碾压下只能被工具理性支配吧 (展开)