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| This 17th-century painting shows a Song dynasty bureaucrat presiding over a civil service examination. During the Song and throughout later centuries, China’s political structure and the resulting domestic order depended upon local elites to serve as bureaucrats who managed institutions and helped fund public works. | ||||||
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| China; East Asian Political Order 1500s to 1800s | ||||||
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