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Seminar: Education, Meritocracy, and Equity: The Chinese Imperial Examination Tradition and Its Contemporary Implications

At Teachers College, Columbia University

Morningside Heights

Explore how China's thousand-year imperial examination system shaped ideas of merit, mobility, and fairness that still echo in classrooms today. Museum curators and scholars from Nanjing join Columbia academics for a lively panel on history's lessons for modern education debates.

Academic seminar
Chinese history
Educational history
Museum professionals

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🎓features curators from Nanjing Imperial Examination Museum
đź“šcovers exam system influence on modern civil service globally
đź’¬moderated by Dr. Henan Cheng, Center on Chinese Education

Teachers College, Columbia University

525 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027, USA

+1 212-678-3000

chinainstitute.org

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