Lost Modernities China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History |
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| Author:
| Woodside, Alexander |
| Series title: | The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-02217-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2006 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $42.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.