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Admissions freedom to choose applicants for opaque institutional reasons.
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Admissions freedom to choose applicants for opaque institutional reasons.
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Exam success is not the same as political success because the emperor retains discretionary authority over appointment and promotion.
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"...I don't have to, okay? The other is the idea of discretion. Discretion means that I can, I can choose to let in for..."
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"You don't have to work. Okay? So in other words, only the elite families of China can compete in the system. And that's the..."
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"It is discretionary. Meaning the emperor. The emperor gets to decide who becomes an official and who gets promoted. Only the emperor. All right?..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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