A Study On Distribution Of Native Place Of Successful Candidates In Imperial Examination System And Diffluence In Late Qing

The current political situation turbulence of late Qing, the difficulties and knottiness at home and abroad ,the subject talents that are chosen from scholars to officials by the eight-part essay were not enough in conformity with these trends of the times. In this situation, the voice of improving imperial examinations increasingly grew to even greater heights, imperial examination system was also developing constantly. Personages'geographical distribution has not only a factor of natural environment, but also contains the influence of the humanism social environment of various fields. Influenced by natural environment, politics, economy, traffic, cultural state and so on, the distribution of successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations in late Qing showed obvious regional imbalance. With deep cultural details inside information, prosperous economy, convenient traffic, powerful and splendid academic writing style, many renowned personalities and successful candidates were born in Jiangsu and Zhejiang area.Oppositely, with the location in the border area, the abominable the environment, inconvenient the traffic, the every province of the Northeast, the Northwest, the Southwest, was relatively late to develop, economy and writing style were both not high, so the successful candidates were rare.Late Qing government recognized serious imperial examinations and serious straight way, the successful Chinese intellectuals from deep traditional edifying culture of the Confucian school took"a good scholar will make an official"as their value orientation, most successful candidates entered the government as the officials, exhibiting their skills on the political platform in late Qing.Howerver,with the pouring of western ideological trend,Chinese and Western cultures were colliding and blending constantly, traditional composition of trained personnel and the flowing of talent began to take place basic change. The successful candidates of Late Qing threw themselves into political circles, military circles, business circles, education circles, literature and art circles, scientific and technological circles, taking a more broad road to become a useful person.This thesis tentatively probes into the development course of imperial examination system in late Qing, the official career and the diffluence of the successful candidates. According to administrative division of Qing Dynasty, the author carries on systematic statistics to the distribution of native place of successful candidates in late Qing. In order to have a further understanding about how natural environment, politics, economy, traffic, culture state of development of area influence the distribution of talent, to study the development of the successful candidates group in the decade of agitational late Qing, to probe into late Qing talents' geographical distribution law. The author also analyzes and summarizes the distribution law and reason of it.