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

Name: Lost Modernities China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History
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ISBN: 9780674022171

ISBN-10: 0674022173

ISBN-13: 9780674022171

Edition: 2006

Authors: Alexander Woodside

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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 from the idea that good politics could be established through the "development of people"--the training of people to be politically useful. Centuries before civil service examinations emerged in the Western world, these three Asian countries were basing…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 134
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.49" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Alexander Woodside is Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, which co-sponsored publication of this book.



Preface


Introduction



Questioning Mandarins



Meritocracy's Underworlds



Administrative Welfare Dreams



Management Theory Mandarins


Conclusion


Notes


Index