Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History (Edwin O.Reischauer Lectures)

by A Woodside (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $52.58

  Offers a revisionist overview of the bureaucratic politics of pre-industrial China, Vietnam and Korea. This title 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.