书名：Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127–1279) / 内容的竞争：帝制中国科举考试标准的协商（1127–1279）
定价：425.0
ISBN：9780674025882
作者：Hilde De Weerdt
版次：1
出版时间：2007-01

内容提要：
书名：Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127–1279) / 内容的竞争：帝制中国科举考试标准的协商（1127–1279）
作者：Hilde De Weerdt (魏希德)
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (Distributed by Harvard University Press)，2007年
装帧：精装，508页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.6*23.5 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/4 英寸)

ISBN：978-0-6740-2588-2

简介
本书考察了从六世纪到二十世纪，科举考试如何在帝制中国的政治版图中创造并维持政治凝聚力。备考科举深刻影响了识字精英的生活——它定义了教育标准，传播了决定精英地位的语言。然而，随着参与科举考试成为这种地位的核心，一场关于决定教育课程和考试内容的激烈竞争在思想与政治对手之间爆发。
本书主要目的是阐释南宋时期（1127–1279）科举考试领域在关键历史节点上的结构重组——这一时期见证了中国政治体制中的重要变革。作者通过分析教科书、考题与范文、官方与私人评注，考察了职业群体、政治团体和知识精英如何塑造课程标准和考试标准，以及考试标准又如何反过来影响政治与知识议程。本书重新审视了关于科举考试及其在帝国秩序中地位的学术争论。

Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the civil service examinations created and maintained political coherence across the Chinese polity. Preparation for the examinations transformed the lives of literate elites by defining educational standards and disseminating a language that determined elite status. However, as participation in the examinations became central to that status, an intense competition to determine the educational curriculum and the subject matter of the examinations erupted between intellectual and political rivals. The principal goal of this book is to explain the restructuring of the examination field during a critical point in its history, the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279), which witnessed the increasing domination of the examinations by the Neo-Confucian Learning of the Way movement. By analyzing textbooks, examination questions and essays, and official and private commentary, Hilde De Weerdt examines how occupational, political, and intellectual groups shaped curricular standards and examination criteria and how examination standards in turn shaped political and intellectual agendas.