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Lost Modernities : China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Edwin O. Reischauer LecturesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (155 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674045347
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lost ModernitiesDDC classification:
  • 320.951
LOC classification:
  • JQ1510
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Questioning Mandarins -- 2 Meritocracy's Underworlds -- 3 Administrative Welfare Dreams -- 4 Mandarin Management Theorists? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Woodside offers an overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Questioning Mandarins -- 2 Meritocracy's Underworlds -- 3 Administrative Welfare Dreams -- 4 Mandarin Management Theorists? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Woodside offers an overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations.

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