Challenge to the West

Name: Challenge to the West
Author: Michael Szonyi

How the Chinese examination system created the modern world

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Michael Szonyi

Michael Szonyi is an associate professor of Chinese history at Harvard University. His forthcoming book is Island on the Frontlines: Quemoy in the Cold War, 1949–1992.

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