Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture, an academic reference project published by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in Beijing, records that in 605, the first year of the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty, the system for selecting officials through imperial civil examinations was formally established, with the jinshi, presented scholar, examination added among its categories, tested on Confucian classical learning and literary composition, and enduring as the most difficult and most revered of the examinations for roughly thirteen hundred years.
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An academic reference project on classical Chinese thought and terminology published by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, an academic publisher affiliated with Beijing Foreign Studies University, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable institutional academic reference works, used here for the jinshi examination's 605 founding date, corroborated by the Cambridge History of China's account of Sui institutional history. Citation
PublisherForeign Language Teaching and Research Press
URLhttps://www.chinesethought.cn/EN/shuyu_show.aspx?shuyu_id=2211
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