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Article: The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911
| Title | The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911 |
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| Issue Date | 2022 |
| Citation | The Journal of Economic History, 2022, Forthcoming How to Cite? |
| Abstract | This paper investigates the impact of the abolition of the civil service exam on local governance in early twentieth-century China. Before the abolition, local elites collected surtaxes that financed local public goods, but they were supervised by the state and could lose candidacy for higher status if they engaged in corrupt behavior. This prospect of upward mobility (POUM) gave them incentives to behave well, which the abolition of the exam removed. Using anti-elite protests as a proxy for the deterioration of local governance, we find that prefectures with a higher POUM experienced more incidents of anti-elite protests after the abolition. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/313372 |
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| dc.contributor.author | Hao, Y | - |
| dc.contributor.author | LIU, Z | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Weng, X | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Zhou, L | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-17T06:45:24Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-17T06:45:24Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | The Journal of Economic History, 2022, Forthcoming | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/313372 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper investigates the impact of the abolition of the civil service exam on local governance in early twentieth-century China. Before the abolition, local elites collected surtaxes that financed local public goods, but they were supervised by the state and could lose candidacy for higher status if they engaged in corrupt behavior. This prospect of upward mobility (POUM) gave them incentives to behave well, which the abolition of the exam removed. Using anti-elite protests as a proxy for the deterioration of local governance, we find that prefectures with a higher POUM experienced more incidents of anti-elite protests after the abolition. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The Journal of Economic History | - |
| dc.title | The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911 | - |
| dc.type | Article | - |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0022050722000225 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 333669 | - |
| dc.identifier.volume | Forthcoming | - |
| dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000806600600001 | - |