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Canton, China: Row of Cells, Examination Hall, for isolation of Ku-yan (A.B. degree) Competitors – Historic Print

Canton, China: Row of Cells, Examination Hall, for isolation of Ku-yan (A.B. degree) Competitors, c1900 Aug. 1. — historic photograph
Canton, China: Row of Cells, Examination Hall, for isolation of Ku-yan (A.B. degree) Competitors, c1900 Aug. 1.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The stereograph shows a row of small, enclosed cells in the examination hall at Canton, where candidates for the *juren* provincial degree, rendered here as the "Ku-yan (A.B. degree)," were sealed in for the length of the examinations. The cells were a safeguard against cheating in a system that ranked men through memorized classical essays and poems, and the hall was among the largest such complexes in China. Underwood & Underwood, the American firm that issued the card, sold stereographs of China to Western audiences around 1900, when the imperial examination system was nearing its end; it was abolished in 1905.

Created / publishedc1900 Aug. 1.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsD15689 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Schools--Foreign; Education; China--Misc.; China--Canton; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,401 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130564

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