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
local society; their local obligations for family, kin, and home community increasingly involved th... (查看原文)
《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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0 有用 自渡人 2021-09-08 14:07:16
明清科举的思想文化史研究，将科举作为明清时代政治、社会、经济和知识人生活的交汇点，分析科举对国家秩序确立的作用，并讨论了国家与士绅的关系。又强调宗族和姻亲因素，认为科举的社会流动远不如何炳棣所认为的乐观。从梦、预言和信仰来讨论知识人对科举的精神焦虑。通过科举答案和出题讨论科举和思想、学术（自然学、考据学、史学等）的关联。不过可以看出艾氏的明清科举文化仍和传统的明清思想史叙述有相当脱节，如无法解释明... 明清科举的思想文化史研究，将科举作为明清时代政治、社会、经济和知识人生活的交汇点，分析科举对国家秩序确立的作用，并讨论了国家与士绅的关系。又强调宗族和姻亲因素，认为科举的社会流动远不如何炳棣所认为的乐观。从梦、预言和信仰来讨论知识人对科举的精神焦虑。通过科举答案和出题讨论科举和思想、学术（自然学、考据学、史学等）的关联。不过可以看出艾氏的明清科举文化仍和传统的明清思想史叙述有相当脱节，如无法解释明代阳明学和科举的关联。又，虽然讨论了科举中知识人的焦虑，但忽视了知识人本身对举业复杂的情感和态度。 (展开)
0 有用 Caleb 2018-04-25 11:46:06
红色封面的比这个蓝色的薄了很多。史料相当详尽。
0 有用 乔庄皮皮 2022-03-12 13:54:37
大致翻了一遍，2013年的Civil Examinations and Meritocracy是这本书的精简版