Competition over content : negotiating standards for the civil service examinations in imperial China (1127-1279) / Hilde De Weerdt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Weerdt, Hilde Godelieve Dominique.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 289.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 289

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil service--China--Examinations--History.

Civil service.

China.

Examinations.

History.

China--History--Song dynasty, 960-1279.

Physical Description:

xvi, 495 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2007]

Contents:

The Civil Service Examinations: Continuity and Change 2

From Northern Song to Southern Song 6

The Examination Field 11

Part I Prolegomena

1 Intellectual Traditions and Teachers 25

The Learning of the Way 25

From Yongjia to "Yongjia" 46

Scholarship and Movement 53

2 Examination Expositions and Policy Response Essays in Literati Culture 55

Exegesis and Examination Writing 59

Government and Examination Writing 78

Part II The "Yongjia" Teachers in the Examination Field

3 The "Yongjia" Teachers' Standards for Examination Success (ca. 1150-ca. 1200) 89

Standards for Policy Response Essays 90

Standards for Expositions 111

4 Preparing for the Examinations (ca. 1150-ca. 1200): The "Yongjia" Curriculum 129

History and Administrative Reasoning 130

Reading and Writing 151

Part III The Court in the Examination Field

5 Court Politics and Examination Standards (1127-1274) 173

The Policy of Great Impartiality 174

Prohibitive Interventions in the Twelfth Century 183

The Ban on False Learning and the Politics of Anthologizing 202

Changing Standards in the Thirteenth Century 213

Part IV The Learning of the Way Movement in the Examination Field

6 Preparing for the Examinations (ca. 1150-1274): Developing the Learning of the Way Curriculum 229

Zhu Xi's Critique of Examination Preparation and the "Yongjia" Curriculum 231

Moral Philosophy: Chen Chun's Examination Guide for Learning of the Way Believers 251

History and Government: Ideological Reconciliation in Commercial Encyclopedias 270

Reading and Writing: The Syncretization of Canons 297

7 The Learning of the Way Transformation of Examination Standards (ca. 1200-1274) 322

Standards for Expositions 323

Standards for Policy Response Essays 345

The Learning of the Way as Official Ideology 365

From Northern Song to Southern Song, Revisited 375

Intellectual History and the Examination Field 381.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-478) and index.

ISBN:

0674025881

9780674025882

OCLC:

85892472