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Offering a revisionist overview of the bureaucratic politics of pre-industrial China, Vietnam and Korea, this title 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.Woodside, Alexander is the author of 'Lost Modernities China, Vietnam, Korea, And the Hazards of World History', published 2006 under ISBN 9780674022171 and ISBN 0674022173.
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