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Mike Myers the actor, from Wikipedia
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https://inference-review.com/article/the-chinese-civil-examinations
DURING THE EARLY twentieth century, the Chinese civil service
examinations became in China, as well as elsewhere, a
symbol of the failure of the Chinese dynastic state and the
backwardness of Chinese society. Chinese intellectuals saw the
examinations as an obstacle to modernization, to the spread
of modern science and technology, and to democratization and
the broadening of education to the population at large. The
“eight-legged essay” (baguwen), one of the genres tested
in the examinations, was then typically singled out as the
embodiment of a system that had forced millions of students
to mindlessly memorize classical texts and reproduce them in
calligraphic writing in a strictly parallel format that left
no space for individual creativity and curricular innovation.
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