EARLY EPISODE: The Taiping Rebellion Part 1: Jesus Christ's Little Brother

Wait, you'd get your results back in a month or less? When I took the bar exam, it took twice that.

SirHumphrey

Hmm, from where does that sound familiar to me?

SpacemanSpiffLives

If I failed the NREMT P I absolutely would have created a death cult.

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

It functionally became a form of hereditary aristocracy because the only people who could afford education were rich.

Great Ghouls and the Soulless

I kinda get where Hong is coming from considering I only went moderately less insane than he did after failing the NREMT paramedic exam for the 3rd time.

Rosemary S Callahan Gray

It was a pretty good idea. But 2500 years is a long time to come up with ways to cheat the system.

Genuinely not the worst idea, particularly when you're coming out of a feudal state which has never even considered meritocratic institutions.

A Guy

Love you guys, you're awesome. Just one very important point: the concept and implementation of the civil service exam comes straight out of Confucianism. Confucius himself supposedly came up with the whole thing. Which makes the exam about 2500 years old.

LMAO, I’m going to need you guys to cover The Cultural Revolution to balance out this, the Unit 731 episode and the eventual one on the Great Leap Forward. At least that will have some comedy in it when you guys cover teenage school children cult worshipping Mao holding the nation hostage and even take up arms and killing other factions.

bravosixniner

This is Chinese history bitch we clown in this motherfucker

Jeremy Shepherd

Sarcasm my friend sarcasm

Grumpy Bowlart

Imagine me, a Chinamen immigrant 30 years ago trying to understand what the fuck does the Caucasus Mountains have to do with being white in America.

bravosixniner

Ancient China exported Confucianism and the Imperial Civil Service exam to Korea, Vietnam, Japan, and possibly Mongolia. Hence why everybody’s obsession with exams and education in general. Leading to school 6 days a week, and then you going to tutoring/cram school after school until 10pm.

bravosixniner

Olafo doesn’t understand that Xenophobia was very much in vogue in the 19th century. In many Asian countries the penalty for being a foreigner is death. White people tried to force countries like Japan and Korea to trade and were met with death. The Dutch captured Chinese fisherman near Formosa and threatened to execute them unless the Ming traded with them.

bravosixniner

Wait radicalized zelot becomes a racist?.

Grumpy Bowlart

Blasphemer.

Ben Schwabe

It's a young adult fantasy book, but the Poppy Wars talks about the civil service exam through the eyes of an orphaned poor girl who busts ass to pass it and go to a military academy. The author clearly draws on a lot of Chinese history for the plot points of the novel.

Marjorie Zeager

*Boots up Victoria 3* Guess I’m gonna try playing as these guys.

James Cézanne-Taipale

praise be to the hong christ

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

They're one among many reinventions of Arianism

Teslashark

`he didn't actually believe in redistributing resources to the needy, but rather creating a common treasury controlled by him.` i can see why mao believed the heavenly kingdom was proto-communist.

Gryphoneer

The Taiping were the only true Christians and everyone else is committing heresy.

Ben Schwabe