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Hardcover Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History Book
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ISBN: 0674022173

ISBN13: 9780674022171

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

(Part of the The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures Series)

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In Lost Modernities Alexander Woodside offers a probing revisionist 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 remarkable for their transparent procedures.

The quest for merit-based bureaucracy stemmed...

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