Note 285 — Chapter IX · EDUCATION AND LITERARY EXAMINATIONS. (continued 2)

See Morrison’s Chinese Dictionary, Vol. I., Part I., pp. 759-779, for the laws and usages of the several trials. Also Doolittle’s Social Life, Vol. I., Chaps. XV., XVI., and XVII.; Biot, Essai sur l’Histoire de l’Instruction Publique en Chine; W. A. P. Martin, The Chinese, pp. 39 ff.; Journal Asiatique, Tomes III., pp. 257 and 321, IV., p. 3, and VII. (3d Series, 1839), pp. 32-81; Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Vol. XXVIII., No. 1, 1859; Journal N. C. Br. B. As. Soc., New Series, Vol. VI., pp. 129 ff.; China Review, Vol. II., p. 309.