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- Title
Qingdai keju kaoshi zhongde "shangji" kaolun--yizhong zhidu shi de shiye.
- Authors
Liu Xiwei
- Abstract
In Qing Dynasty a special household registration for salt merchants and their offspring was used in the Imperial Examination. However, this registration category also had other implications. This special status was a product of the "marriage of the salt industries and the Imperial Examination" and also the product of beneficial exchange between the salt merchants and the government. The Qing government set a special quota in many provinces. Because the salt merchants and their offspring could not return to their original home regions to participate in the Imperial Examination, it was a necessary condition for the special household registration. But, this provision was flexible in some cases, and it was not always employed. Thus, many examinees who did not meet this provision often took the special tests. Thus there were many instances of fraud due to these phenomena in the history of Imperial Examination in Qing Dynasty.
- Subjects
CHINA; QING dynasty, China, 1644-1912; EXAMINATIONS; SALT industry; MERCHANTS; HOUSEHOLDS
- Publication
Qing History Journal, 2010, Vol 79, Issue 3, p83
- ISSN
1002-8587
- Publication type
Article