China’s Song dynasty (960-1279 ... tea culture and the systemization of the civil service exams, establishing a meritocracy that’s evident still today (something I wrote about in last month ...

NOVA: Was it a type of meritocracy? Yates ... Faster growing rice distributed during the Song Dynasty helped prevent famine. NOVA: Did printing play a role in the economic boom of the Song ...

During the Song Dynasty (960 and 1279), according to the ... The goal was to create an intellectual meritocracy based on Confucian learning. The system of exams was consolidated during later ...

A baby-faced young man sitting on the front row of Christie’s New York saleroom outbid several rivals to win a Song dynasty scroll painting of dragons for $49 million on Wednesday. Chen Rong’s ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A nearly 900-year-old porcelain Song dynasty bowl smashed the world auction record for Chinese ceramics on Tuesday, selling for HK$294.3 million ($37.68 million) at a Sotheby ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...