Looking at the imperial examination system in 1300, how did it go from a complete talent selection mechanism to decline?
How did dynasties in the past use imperial examinations to achieve their political aspirations of attracting elites?
How did imperial examination fraud and fraud prevention evolve in the long course of history?
The imperial examination is called "the fifth greatest invention in the world" by foreigners. For more than a thousand years, there is rarely a system that can so profoundly affect and change the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
This book is based on the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty. Based on extensive reading and accumulation, the author has consulted many autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries of celebrities since the Qing Dynasty, as well as notes, essays, collections, memorials, novels, etc. Of many Qing Dynasty and modern scholars. It is authentic, credible, and full of images. The author's storytelling method reinterprets the long-standing imperial examination system, turning abstraction into images, allowing us to feel the touchable warmth in the cold vocabulary and boring system.
This book discusses in detail the evolution history of the ancient Chinese imperial examination system, objectively evaluates the pros and cons of the ancient imperial examination system, and uses vivid examples and detailed historical materials to reproduce the life destiny of the scholar group in the imperial examination and officialdom.
