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Product Description: The Class of 1761 reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from the unique perspective of a single graduating class. The author follows the students' struggles in negotiating the examination system along with bureaucratic intrigue and intellectual conflict, as well as their careers across the Empire―to the battlefields of imperial expansion in Annam and Tibet, the archives where the glories of the empire were compiled, and back to the chambers where they in turn became examiners for the next generation of aspirants...read more

Hardcover:

9780804741460 | Stanford Univ Pr, August 30, 2004, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: The Class of 1761 reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from the unique perspective of a single graduating class.

By Bei Dao, Iona Man-Cheong (trans) and Eliot Weinberger (trans)

Paperback:

9780811214476 | New Directions, September 1, 2000, cover price $13.95

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