Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History

by Alexander Barton Woodside

In Lost Modernities Alexander Woodside offers a probing revisionist overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations remarkable for their transparent procedures.

The quest for merit-based bureaucracy stemmed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022173
• ISBN13: 9780674022171
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"