A Study On The Provincial Examination Of Shandong Province In Qing Dynasty

Provincial examination is one of the most competitive, large-scale and influential levels in Imperial Examination System. As a kind of important cultural activity, provincial examination had influenced regional politics, regional cultures, social customs and morals in a very deep way. The previous Imperial Examination study were basically about its "system", and systematic study about provinces' Provincial examination are very few. Because Provincial examination is very import and has great influences in Imperial Examination System, so to study it systematically can enrich Imperial Examination study and Chinese educational history study, also this is very referential to modern large-scale examinations. This paper discussed Provincial examination of Shandong procince in Qing dynasty on the aspects of its funds, competition, juren's regional distribution and social backgrounds from perspectives of education, culture, geogrophy, socialology, ecnomics and so on.This paper includes six chapters. The introduction part is mainly about the subject-selecting origion, research significance, study review, research frame, and research methods. Chapter 1 makes a brief introdution about Provincial examination system from the perspectives of examination year, examination place, examineer, examination content, quota of Juren, ration of examinee. Chapter 2 introduced provincial examination from several aspects, such as Shandong Provincial examination places, quota of Juren, ration of examinee, examineer, fraudulent practices and malpractices. Chapter 3 is discusses about examination funds in provincial examination of shandong in qing dynasty. Chapter 4 probes into competition Provincial examination of Shandong in Qing dynasty according to admission ratio and admission ratio per capita. At the same time, it makes a provincial comparison about admission ratio per capita in different provinces. Chapter 5 is about the regional distribution of Juren in shandong in Qing dynasty. In this part, the paper also discusses regional distribution of Juren in shandong in Qing dynasty, and makes some distribution comparisons between two dynasties. In addition, it makes some analysis on the reason of distribution traits. Chapter 6 is about the social backgrounds of Shandong Juren in Qing dynasty. This chapter makes some statistics about social backgrounds of Shandong Juren in Qing dynasty according to Collection of Zhujuan of Qing Dynasty, and makes a discussion about how to see the stratum mobility in the Imperial Examination ages. The last part is about the progress the study has made, and the questions that need to be researched in the future.