American protestant missionaries in China in the late Qing Dynasty paid much attention to Chinese imperial examination system, delivering speech of introduction and comments.

晚清时期来华美国新教传教士十分关注中国科举制度，并发表了不少介绍、评论科举制度的言论。

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From the late Qing Dynasty to "May 4th" period, because of the collision of Western literature and the abolition of the imperial examination system, the intellectuals in China transformed.

晚清至“五四”时期，由于西学的冲击和科举制度的废除，中国知识者群体发生转型。

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Works like Philip Kuhn's "Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China" (1970) place the story in the context of China's long history of struggles between dynasties and those seeking to topple them, while Jen Yu-wen's "The Taiping Revolutionary Movement" (1973) goes further, insisting that Hong's movement had more in common with the revolutions that followed it than rebellions of earlier times.

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