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Jinshi (Chinese: 進士; pinyin: jìnshì) was the highest and final degree in the imperial examination in Imperial China. [1] The examination was usually taken in the imperial capital in the palace, and was also called the Metropolitan Exam. Recipients are sometimes referred to in English-language sources as Imperial Scholars. [2] The jinshi ...
The imperial examination was a civil service examination system in Imperial China administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.The concept of choosing bureaucrats by merit rather than by birth started early in Chinese history, but using written examinations as a tool of selection started in earnest during the Sui dynasty [1] (581–618), then into the Tang ...
MAT – Mathematics Admissions Test (Oxford, Imperial College). [18] STEP – Sixth Term Examination Paper in Mathematics (Cambridge, Imperial College, Warwick). [19] Test of Mathematics for University Admission (LSE, Bath, Durham, Lancaster). [20]
In AD 607, Emperor Yang established a new category of examinations for the "presented scholar" (jinshi ke 进士科). These three categories of examination were the origins of the imperial examination system that would last until 1905. Consequently, the year 607 is also considered by many to be the real beginning of the imperial examination system.
Sun Jianai (7 April 1827 – 29 November 1909) was a Chinese official and educator during the late Qing dynasty, noted as an advisor and tutor to the Guangxu Emperor.Born in Anhui, he passed the imperial examinations and became a jinshi in 1859.
The operations of the examination system were part of the imperial record keeping system, and the date of receiving the jinshi degree is often a key biographical datum: sometimes the date of achieving jinshi is the only firm date known for even some of the most historically prominent persons in Chinese history.
Li Yingzhen (Chinese: 李应珍) (1250–1283) was a Jinshi in the Jiaxu year of Xianchun (1274). He was the deputy envoy of Guangxi Province. Liu Yingshen (Chinese: 刘应莘) (1251–1324) became a Jinshi, passing the imperial examination in an unknown year.
Juren (Chinese: 舉人; lit. 'recommended man') was a rank achieved by people who passed the xiangshi (Chinese: 鄉試) exam in the imperial examination system of imperial China. [1] The xiangshi is also known, in English, as the provincial examination. [ 1 ]