Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

Topic: Meritocracy and Early Modern China

Speaker: Lawrence Zhang (Associate Professor, Division of Humanity, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Moderator: Li Ren-Yuan (Associate Research Fellow, IHP, Academia Sinica)

Time: July 24th (Mon.) 3:00-5:00 PM

Venue: Room 701, Research Building, IHP

Organizer: Research Center of Institution and Society, IHP, Accademia Sinica

Note: Prof. Lawrence Zhang is the author of Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China (Harvard Asia Center, 2022) and a contributor to Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2022).