January 19, 2024
Even in medieval China, education was a key to career success
If you tell your children that education is the key to success in life, you may have something in common with Chinese parents from the 7th to 9th centuries.
A new study finds that between 618-907 CE, young men’s career success in China’s Tang Dynasty was increasingly tied to how well they performed on a competitive examination called the Keju (the Imperial Exam) – and much less on their ancestral origins and family pedigree.
