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Civil Service Exam

The Keju is the main mechanism that let emperors transform a national aristocracy into localized elites.

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Sui/Tang origins and Song institutionalization of the civil service exam

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The Keju is the main mechanism that let emperors transform a national aristocracy into localized elites.

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The Bureaucracy That Ate China

2025-03-13, day precision · Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom

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"All right. And what Professor Wang Yuhua says is the main mechanism that the emperor used in order to achieve this radical cultural shift..."

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