text: People with family connections could avoid participating in this system via the "protection privilege.
full_question: People with family connections could avoid participating in this system via the "protection privilege." This system was one of the chief influences on the Northcote-Trevelyan report. This system was modernized during the Hundred Days Reform, which included the abolishment of this system's focus on the notoriously rigid "eight-legged" form. After his lack of (*) success in this system, Hong Xiuquan declared himself the younger brother of Jesus and started the Taiping rebellion. This system culminated in a 72-hour process held in a tiny cell. Successful participants in this system could achieve the jenshi status and had to memorize many of the Four Books and Five Classics, a set of Confucian works. For 10 points, name this system by which the bureaucracy of Imperial China was selected.
first_sentence: People with family connections could avoid participating in this system via the "protection privilege.
raw_answer: Chinese imperial examination [or Chinese civil service examination; or keju; prompt on partial answers like Chinese civil service or Chinese bureaucracy or Chinese government]