Produced by Zhonghua Book Company-Imperial Examination and Literature in the Tang Dynasty

On the basis of sorting out relevant documents of the imperial examination system in the Tang Dynasty, this book makes a textual research on various subjects of the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty, such as Mingjing, Jinshi and Zhiju. It also examines activities of imperial competitive examination in the Tang Dynasty, such as the subject setting, content evolution, civil examinations for government degrees, examination of candidate for the imperial examinations, announcement of examination result, and banquets, and discusses the influence of the system of imperial competitive examination on the literary atmosphere and social custom at that time. With the method of combining historiography and literary research, the book comprehensively investigates relevant social historical materials in historical records and literary descriptions of the ancients, studies the life path, thinking mode and psychological state of the scholars in the Tang Dynasty, and tries to reproduce some of the features of the era and social customs at that time, which is a pioneer in the research history and has a far-reaching influence.