The Intellectuals in Northern China and The Abolition of the Civil Service Examinations: Minds and Identities
Abstract
In order to understand the impact of the abolition of the civil service examinations,
I examine the lives of Chinese intellectuals during 1895-1910. I investigate their
behaviors, emotions, and living environment, and explore how intellectuals retained
positions in society through various channels and compare different patterns of their
psychological change. What I discover is that stratification among local elites promoted
them to discover their new identities in the transition from the Qing dynasty to the
Republican government: they were trying to become pure intellectuals or scholar-officials
before the dramatic changes of the civil service examinations; however, during the
republican times, they would explore their new life path and gradually shape their
unique understanding of modernization.
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Xiang, Shiyi (2015). The Intellectuals in Northern China and The Abolition of the Civil Service Examinations:
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