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  2. Imperial examination - Wikipedia

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    The imperial examination was a civil service examination system in Imperial China administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.The concept of choosing bureaucrats by merit rather than by birth started early in Chinese history, but using written examinations as a tool of selection started in earnest during the Sui dynasty [1] (581–618), then into the Tang ...

  3. Eight-legged essay - Wikipedia

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    Eight-legged essay. The eight-legged essay ( Chinese: 八股文; pinyin: bāgǔwén; lit. 'eight bone text') [1] was a style of essay in imperial examinations during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. [1] The eight-legged essay was needed for those candidates in these civil service tests to show their merits for government service, often ...

  4. Social structure of China - Wikipedia

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    During the Song dynasty, there was a clear division in social structure which was enforced by law. However, commoners could move up in society through the acquirement of wealth. Through passing the imperial exam or donating resources, people could enter the gentry. By the Yuan dynasty, there was a decrease in protection by the law for commoners ...

  5. Diet (assembly) - Wikipedia

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    In politics, a diet (/ ˈ d aɪ. ə t / DY-ət) is a formal deliberative assembly.The term is used historically for deliberative assemblies such as the German Imperial Diet (the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire), as well as a designation for modern-day legislative bodies of certain countries and states such as the National Diet of Japan, or the German Bundestag ...

  6. Scholar-official - Wikipedia

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    The strong relationship between Imperial Examination and the official position were still present, though the entire society formed a climate of "studying well so as to become an official" 学而优则仕. [17] In 1905, the Qing government abolished the imperial examination system, leading to the gradual disappearance of scholar-officials.

  7. Imperial examination in Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    The imperial examination was a civil service examination system in Imperial China designed to select the best potential candidates to serve as administrative officials, for the purpose of recruiting them for the state's bureaucracy. With the avowed purpose of testing and selecting candidates for merit, the examination system markedly influenced ...

  8. Meritocracy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Meritocracy ( merit, from Latin mereō, and -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος kratos 'strength, power') is the notion of a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on ability and talent, rather than wealth, social class, [ 1] or race. Advancement in such a system is based ...

  9. Justinian I - Wikipedia

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    Justinian was born in Tauresium, Dardania, [ 10][ 11] probably in 482. [ 12] A native speaker of Latin (possibly the last Roman emperor to be one), [ 13] he came from a peasant family thought to have been of either of Illyro-Roman [ 14][ 15][ 16] or Thraco-Roman [ 17][ 18][ 19] origin. The name Iustinianus, which he took later, is indicative of ...