Rituals of Recruitment in Tang China

Reading an Annual Programme in the Collected Statements by Wang Dingbao 870-940

2004 • 422 pages

This study analyzes records of annual ritual performances in order to trace the emergence of the culture of civil service examination recruitment in its social and political contexts during China's Tang dynasty (618-907).

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