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Bibliographie BIBLIOGRAPHIE E. A. KRACKE, Jr., Civil Service in Early Sung China 960-1067, with particular emphasis on the development of controlled sponsorship to foster administrative responsibility (Harvard- Yenching Monograph Series, Vol. XIII), XV+262 pp. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1953. It is a pleasure to announce this book which after R. des Rotours' study on the official system of the T'ang dynasty 1) sheds a great deal of new light on the selection of officials during the first hundred years of the Sung dynasty. The system of controlled sponsorship 1¥: 1£ has so far been little noticed, but the author succeeds in showing its great importance as a method supplementary to the state examinations for obtaining a body of competent and honest officials. It is quite revealing to read how, long before Wang An-shih embarked on his campaign of drastic reform measures, the Sung government was earnestly endeavouring to find methods which might ensure that responsible government positions should be occupied by men of real worth. Sung China was thoroughly Confucianistic and the Confucian adagium that the hsien-liang f ang-cheng should receive promotion was honoured with a greater conviction and greater consistency than ever before. At the same time http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

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T'oung Pao , Volume 42 (1): 381 – Jan 1, 1953
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Brill
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© 1953 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0082-5433
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10.1163/156853253X00156
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BIBLIOGRAPHIE E. A. KRACKE, Jr., Civil Service in Early Sung China 960-1067, with particular emphasis on the development of controlled sponsorship to foster administrative responsibility (Harvard- Yenching Monograph Series, Vol. XIII), XV+262 pp. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1953. It is a pleasure to announce this book which after R. des Rotours' study on the official system of the T'ang dynasty 1) sheds a great deal of new light on the selection of officials during the first hundred years of the Sung dynasty. The system of controlled sponsorship 1¥: 1£ has so far been little noticed, but the author succeeds in showing its great importance as a method supplementary to the state examinations for obtaining a body of competent and honest officials. It is quite revealing to read how, long before Wang An-shih embarked on his campaign of drastic reform measures, the Sung government was earnestly endeavouring to find methods which might ensure that responsible government positions should be occupied by men of real worth. Sung China was thoroughly Confucianistic and the Confucian adagium that the hsien-liang f ang-cheng should receive promotion was honoured with a greater conviction and greater consistency than ever before. At the same time

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