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Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History In Lost Modernities Alexander Woodside offers a probing revisionist overview of.
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Using three countries that share a Confucian heritage and have often been considered to lag behind the West in developing modern socio-political systems, he illuminates how East Asian thinkers grappled with many issues that later became salient in Western political thought. Lost Modernities places East Asia squarely within current discussions of global history, and will generate lively debate.

This compact study is original and provocative. Its comparative approach is an inspiration to all who work on Asian states past and present. It confronts alternative modernities in new and sophisticated ways. And, not least, it is a contribution to the history of governance, notably on the need for, and the limits of, meritocratic principles in public management. With pungent wit and panoramic scope, Woodside punctures Western pretensions by showing that East Asian societies anticipated contemporary controversies over bureaucracy, meritocracy, and social welfare.

By demolishing myths of modernity, Asian and Western, he brilliantly illuminates comparative global history and social science. This amount is subject to change until you make payment. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Programme terms and conditions - opens in a new window or tab This amount includes applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees.

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He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations remarkable for their transparent procedures. The quest for merit-based bureaucracy stemmed from the idea that good politics could be established through the "development of people"--the training of people to be politically useful. Centuries before civil service examinations emerged in the Western world, these three Asian countries were basing bureaucratic advancement on examinations in addition to patronage.

But the evolution of the mandarinates cannot be accommodated by our usual timetables of what is "modern. A sophisticated examination of Asian political traditions, both their achievements and the associated risks, this book removes modernity from a standard Eurocentric understanding and offers a unique new perspective on the transnational nature of Asian history and on global historical time.

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Jan 11, Patrick rated it really liked it Shelves: A very nice reflection on the Confucian East Asian imperial civil service examination system in Korea, China, and Vietnam, and on the broader concept and problems of bureaucracy itself. Apr 24, Aaron rated it liked it. Some good information, but it could have all been handled in a shorter article.