Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late-Qing China

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Weixing, or "surname guessing," was a highly organized lottery practice in China wherein money was bet on the surnames of which candidates would pass the civil and military examinations. For centuries, up until 1905, the examination system was the primary means by which...

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