Nolan Bensen

Date of Award

2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

Second Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Hicks, Barbara

Keywords

East Asian Studies, Historical Institutionalism, Comparative Public Administration

Area of Concentration

Chinese Language and Culture

Abstract

Asking the question of whether China's contemporary civil service testing institutions in any way resemble those that staffed the Qing dynasty's bureaucracies, this study finds that they filter similar populations: families near the coast, growing in wealth and influence, in both cases. It furthermore infers that these populations under the Qing would have constituted a bourgeoisie, had they not been recruited out of that class and trained not to identify with it as part of their recruitment. With regard to the present day, it concludes that these populations do constitute a bourgeoisie, that their examiners today are part of that same group and thus do not discourage membership in it, and that this has been so since some time after Deng Xiaoping initiated the "Reform and Opening" movement.

Rights

This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.

Download

Share

COinS