An Exploration of How the Confucian Notion of Scholar-Official has Impacted Chinese People’s View on Careers

Jie Xiong

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An Exploration of How the Confucian Notion of Scholar-Official has Impacted Chinese People’s View on Careers

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- Jie Xiong
- University of Alberta, Canada

Abstract

This paper reveals that scholar-official has impacted Chinese people’s view on careers by the imperial examination system for a long history. Tensions between higher education expansion and college student employment, the meaning of scholar-official and the imperial examinations, and the implication for developing tertiary vocational education in China are discussed.

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How to Cite: Xiong, J. (2007) “An Exploration of How the Confucian Notion of Scholar-Official has Impacted Chinese People’s View on Careers”, Adult Education Research Conference. 1(2007).