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The headline is misleading; it might better say "...that broke Chinese society...", but then the article asserts that the Ching regime imploded af

The headline is misleading; it might better say "...that broke Chinese society...", but then the article asserts that the Ching regime imploded after and because the exams were stopped in 1905.

latexr 3y ago
You can surround text in asterisks for emphasis, *like so*. Use a backslash and an asterisk or two asterisks together to output a * literally, **like so**.
- foobarian 3y ago
  Your mastery of HN comment meta-character rendering is impressive! :-)
  - CSSer 3y ago
    The name checks out. Anyone who can understand LaTEX must have a natural disposition for markup mastery.
    - philsnow 3y ago
      (or markup masochism) I love the output that you can get with LaTeX, but I just can't wrap my head around the syntax. For some things you run a \command just inline with whatever you're doing (and if you want that command to only apply for a small part, you can surround it in an implicit environment with {\command whatever you were going to type}, for others you create an \environment{and write things inside it}. I guess in general it's weird to me that something like \Large can affect everything that comes after it, it feels vaguely like overuse of global variables in C. Parameters/options to commands and environment directives... I guess sometimes use square brackets and sometimes use curly brackets? I could never figure this out.
    - digitalsushi 3y ago
      CSSer, a passing master, subtly bows his head to latexr, a passing master, in the opposite direction. An oak creaks in the slightest breeze and a woodpecker bores for a beetle.
canjobear 3y ago
Yasheng Huang’s broader thesis is that keju broke Chinese society in the sense that all intellectual energy was focused on the single hierarchy established by the test, instead of being focused on multiple endeavors and new ideas. He explains it better in his Tyler Cowen interview than in this article: https://youtu.be/KcbwBqIyusc?si=6aiG8-qPyPPxa0Fv https://youtu.be/KcbwBqIyusc?si=6aiG8-qPyPPxa0Fv
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- ssnistfajen 3y ago
  This is going into alt history territory TBH. Keju was an improvement over the previous system which largely consisted of staffing the civil service based on ancestry from large aristocratic families who nominated each other to strengthen their political power. Imperial China's hegemony over its surrounding regions was not thoroughly challenged until the 19th century, and once it began to be challenged by nations with more advanced ideas and technologies, Keju did enter terminal decline along with the rest of the imperial system. Even without Keju, Early Modern China didn't have the recipes for scientific or industrial revolution to start there.
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latexr 3y ago

You can surround text in asterisks for emphasis, *like so*. Use a backslash and an asterisk or two asterisks together to output a * literally, **like so**.

foobarian 3y ago
Your mastery of HN comment meta-character rendering is impressive! :-)
- CSSer 3y ago
  The name checks out. Anyone who can understand LaTEX must have a natural disposition for markup mastery.
  - philsnow 3y ago
    (or markup masochism) I love the output that you can get with LaTeX, but I just can't wrap my head around the syntax. For some things you run a \command just inline with whatever you're doing (and if you want that command to only apply for a small part, you can surround it in an implicit environment with {\command whatever you were going to type}, for others you create an \environment{and write things inside it}. I guess in general it's weird to me that something like \Large can affect everything that comes after it, it feels vaguely like overuse of global variables in C. Parameters/options to commands and environment directives... I guess sometimes use square brackets and sometimes use curly brackets? I could never figure this out.
  - digitalsushi 3y ago
    CSSer, a passing master, subtly bows his head to latexr, a passing master, in the opposite direction. An oak creaks in the slightest breeze and a woodpecker bores for a beetle.

canjobear 3y ago

Yasheng Huang’s broader thesis is that keju broke Chinese society in the sense that all intellectual energy was focused on the single hierarchy established by the test, instead of being focused on multiple endeavors and new ideas. He explains it better in his Tyler Cowen interview than in this article: https://youtu.be/KcbwBqIyusc?si=6aiG8-qPyPPxa0Fv https://youtu.be/KcbwBqIyusc?si=6aiG8-qPyPPxa0Fv

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ssnistfajen 3y ago
This is going into alt history territory TBH. Keju was an improvement over the previous system which largely consisted of staffing the civil service based on ancestry from large aristocratic families who nominated each other to strengthen their political power. Imperial China's hegemony over its surrounding regions was not thoroughly challenged until the 19th century, and once it began to be challenged by nations with more advanced ideas and technologies, Keju did enter terminal decline along with the rest of the imperial system. Even without Keju, Early Modern China didn't have the recipes for scientific or industrial revolution to start there.

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The headline is misleading; it might better say "...that broke <b><i>Chinese</i></b> society...", but then the article asserts that the Ching regime imploded af

The headline is misleading; it might better say "...that broke <b><i>Chinese</i></b> society...", but then the article asserts that the Ching regime imploded af