China Government Employee Database-Qing (CGED-Q) Jinshenlu 1900-1912 Public Release

Campbell, Cameron Dougall; Chen, Bijia; Ren, Yuxue; Lee, James Z.

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“…18 To measure exposure to trade openness, we use the distance to treaty ports obtained from China Historical GIS (2016). In order to capture the political connections of local elites with incumbent officials, we use the data on the hometown of officials from the China Government Employee Database-Qing, constructed by Campbell et al (2019). We create two proxy variables for the extent of state extraction, including province-level fiscal income and expenditure data in 1908 (Zhou 2000) and the number of commercial tax (lijin) bureaus and commercial tax stations (Luo 1936).…”

Section: Prefecture Characteristicsmentioning

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The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911

Hao¹,

Liu²,

Wang³

et al. 2022

J. Econ. Hist.

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This paper investigates the impact of the abolition of the civil service exam on local governance in early twentieth-century China. Before the abolition, local elites collected surtaxes that financed local public goods, but they were supervised by the state and could lose candidacy for higher status if they engaged in corrupt behavior. This prospect of upward mobility (POUM) gave them incentives to behave well, which the abolition of the exam removed. Using anti-elite protests as a proxy for the deterioration of local governance, we find that prefectures with a higher POUM experienced more incidents of anti-elite protests after the abolition.

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Section: Prefecture Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911

Hao¹,

Liu²,

Wang³

et al. 2022

J. Econ. Hist.

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“…To quantify the official's qualifications and the extent of good governance, we draw on the China Government Employee Database (Jinshenlu) (CGED), provided by Campbell et al (2019). CGED introduces the comprehensive information about 638,153 local officials in the Qing dynasty.…”

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The long shadow of history in China: Regional governance reform and Chinese territorial inequality

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Concretising the Legal Professional Community in Late Imperial China, c. 1700–1900

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2024

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This article examines the empire-wide legal professional community that emerged for the first time in Chinese history during the Qing period (1644–1911). By analyzing a wide range of archival records and primary sources, this study provides valuable insights into the dynamic configurations of late imperial China’s legal culture and juridical field, as well as the thousands of legal specialists who shaped them. The findings challenge much of the received wisdom about late imperial China, which has too often been assumed as a Confucian society that discouraged the use of law and legal expertise and was therefore unlikely to have witnessed so many Confucian literati becoming legal specialists, both within and outside the judicial system.

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China Government Employee Database-Qing (CGED-Q) Jinshenlu 1900-1912 Public Release

Cited by 3 publications

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The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911

The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911

The long shadow of history in China: Regional governance reform and Chinese territorial inequality

Concretising the Legal Professional Community in Late Imperial China, c. 1700–1900

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