Path toward the Top Leadership: A Network Analysis of the Civil Service System in the Early Southern Song (1131– 1164)

This study takes a network approach to explore the career trajectories of Song officials who served in the Imperial Library from 1131 to 1164. It elucidates the fact that the officials’ career records, abundant in Chinese historical sources, are a trove of information that we may utilize to decipher...

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Veröffentlicht: Université du Luxembourg 2021
In: Journal of historical network research
Jahr: 2021, Band: 5, Heft: 1, Seiten: 33-86
weitere Schlagwörter:B state governance
B Career Trajectory
B Chinese civil service system
B directed acyclic graphs
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