HIST 106g Study Guide - Final Guide: Liang Qichao, Kang Youwei, Cultural Revolution
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It did however, play an indirect role in the turmoil that was seen throughout the 20th century. Today, it is making a revival in china. With the military defeats in the 1890s and pressure to develop a national school system, reformers such as kang youwei and liang qichao called for abolition and the hundred days" Reform of 1898 proposed a set of modernizations. After the boxer rebellion, the government drew up plans to reform under the name of new. On 2 september 1905, the throne endorsed a memorial which ordered that the old examination system be discontinued at all levels in the following year. The new system provided equivalents to the old degrees; the bachelor"s degree, for instance, would be considered equivalent to the xiu cai. In late imperial china, the examination system was the major mechanism by which the central government captured and held the loyalty of local-level elites.
