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

by Iona D. Man-Cheong

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804741468
• ISBN13: 9780804741460
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"