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Journal Article
From Mobility to Stability
2016
Overview
In Land and Lineage in China, Hilary Beattie focused on a single county, but one that happened to produce a disproportionately large number of officials.4 She argued that landholding was the most essential part of a long-term strategy for maintaining socioeconomic status at the local level. [...]she found that families in fact exhibited a great deal of continuity over centuries. More broadly conceived, for purposes of competing in civil service examinations, classical literacy required memorization of classical texts, mastery of \"Way learning,\" or Neo-Confucianism, and the ability to compose a form of parallel writing known as the eight-legged essay. Because one had to master the classical language in order to have any hope of succeeding in the examinations, more than ninety percent of male commoners, Elman shows, were \"linguistically, and thus culturally, excluded from the examination market\" (46-47, 132). [...]examiners increased standards.
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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