Talk:Self-Strengthening Movement
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- The bureaucracy was still deeply influenced by Neo-Confucian orthodoxy.
I don't think that most historians think that this was the case with China in the mid-19th century. The imperial examinations were still largely based on Neo-Confucian concepts, but at the same time they were being very seriously challenged by the Han Learning and the evidential schools.
(see Benjamin Elman)
Roadrunner 16:39, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
