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The Study Of Job Segregation About Modern Intellectuals After Ke Ju System Abolished

Posted on:2011-08-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330395953935Subject:China's modern history
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In the modern era, along with the development of capitalist economy and socialdivision of labor, there appeared quite a few of sections, which stimulated the increasingnecessity for professional persons. This is especially true after the abolishment of the ImperialExamination System/Ke Ju System, when the mono-professional framework that based on KeJu system clasped.Under the influence of economy and system, along with their individual value judgmentand choice, the professional of intellectuals in modern society not only form a complicatedprofessional prospect but also splashed the evolution process of modern society. Manytraditional concepts were changed, and the society was greatly improved.Before Opium war, the social levels and professional framework were established onthe base of social economic situation characterized by self-reliant agricultural economy,namely, Shi Nong Gong Shang. Owing to the restriction of employment system and theinfluence of Empire Examination System/Ke Ju System, Excellent intellectuals make goodOfficials” became the ideal profession choice pursued by most intellectuals.Owing to the development of economy and the diversification of value, modernintellectuals gained more freedom in choosing their profession, according to their own valuejudgment and will. The extension of professional choice and the augmentation of opportunityled to the diversification in the guiding principles of modern intellectuals on professionalchoosing.In1901, the Late Qing Administration began to perform the New Policy, conducting aseries of reforms in political and economical area, which brought about great impacts inModern China. The abolishment of Ke Ju System in1905was an especially important eventwhich broke the systematic resource on which the intellectuals relied to gain privilege andprofession, and which broke the social framework maintained by Ke Ju System. As a resultschool education take the place of Ke Ju System to become the institution of brain cultivationin the society.He profession choosing process was a kind of re-distribution of intelligence in new socialsituation. With the increase of professional consciousness of social environment and thedevelopment of modern education, the professional concepts and traditional regional conceptswere dramatically changed. The choice of profession became a more and more importantissue, which evoked the change of society during the framing of various professions. Amongthose changes, the most dramatic one was the social flow and shifting of social levels causedby profession choice, which was the most outstanding event in social evolution.
Keywords/Search Tags:The Late Qing and Early Republican Period, modern intellectuals, Jobsegregation, Social Change
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