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of 1854 which was influenced by the ancient Chinese imperial examination. This system was modeled on the imperial examinations system and bureaucracy of China based on the suggestions of Northcote-Trevelyan Report. Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China argued in his Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China, published in 1847, that "the long duration of the Chinese empire is solely and altogether

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