talents for battle, etc I He believed that in modern China all these talents were needed, specialized talents, like talents for official work, talents for crafting, talents for diplomac On the other hand, traditional literati influenced by Confucianism tend to put ethics on the first place of education, thus paying most attention to moral accomplishment. When there was an inconformity between ethics and capability, the former one was more likely acknowledged. However, in Wang Tao's view, one should never be ruled out"Talents" group even though there is a stain on his personality. He divided talents to"real talents'(Zhen Cai and"fake talents'(Wei Cai). " Some traditional talents, who are ignorant of stuff related to bettering the country, are just fake talents b) Reform of the civil examination Although Wang Tao held a negative attitude towards traditional civil examination, he did not insist on abolishing it. What he thought should be abolished is Eight-part Essay("Ba Gu Wen"or"Shi Wen ), which had been a required style of literature in civil examination from Ming dynasty. This special style has strictly fixed structure and theme restrained to Four Books and Five Classics. Eight-part Essay suppressed literatis free thinking in Ming and Qing dynasty as it only paid attention to form regardless of content From his own experience and foreign learning, Wang Tao knew deeply the shortcoming of Eight-part Essay, but he was afraid that sudden remove might spell intense objection which would even bring more disadvantages, so he advocated a gradual way. He suggested arranging two tests in the examination. The first remains to be traditional essay, and the second concerns practical learning. After some four or five big examinations, " traditional essay part could be remove Wang Tao also suggested increasing western knowledge in the examination. He listed ten parts in literary test, including knowledge of Confucianism, western science and statecraft Wang Tao even recommended western examine methods such as interview and operating test For raising more specialists, Wang Tao thought about recommendation besides Wang Tao, Continued Works of Tao Garden Letters, volume 3. " A draft of petition Wang Tao, Additional Collection of Tao Garden Writings, volume 3, Zhongzhou Ancient Book Press, 1998, Pp1432 specialized talents, like talents for official work, talents for crafting, talents for diplomacy, talents for battle, etc.”1He believed that in modern China all these talents were needed. On the other hand, traditional literati influenced by Confucianism tend to put ethics on the first place of education, thus paying most attention to moral accomplishment. When there was an inconformity between ethics and capability, the former one was more likely to be acknowledged. However, in Wang Tao’s view, one should never be ruled out “Talents” group even though there is a stain on his personality. He divided talents to “real talents”(Zhen Cai) and “fake talents”(Wei Cai). “Some traditional talents, who are ignorant of stuff related to bettering the country, are just fake talents.”2 b) Reform of the civil examination Although Wang Tao held a negative attitude towards traditional civil examination, he did not insist on abolishing it. What he thought should be abolished is Eight-part Essay (“Ba Gu Wen” or “Shi Wen”), which had been a required style of literature in civil examination from Ming dynasty. This special style has strictly fixed structure and theme restrained to Four Books and Five Classics. Eight-part Essay suppressed literati’s free thinking in Ming and Qing dynasty as it only paid attention to form regardless of content. From his own experience and foreign learning, Wang Tao knew deeply the shortcoming of Eight-part Essay, but he was afraid that sudden remove might spell intense objection which would even bring more disadvantages, so he advocated a gradual way. He suggested arranging two tests in the examination. The first remains to be traditional essay, and the second concerns practical learning. After some four or five big examinations, “traditional essay” part could be removed. Wang Tao also suggested increasing western knowledge in the examination. He listed ten parts in literary test, including knowledge of Confucianism, western science and statecraft. Wang Tao even recommended western examine methods such as interview and operating test. For raising more specialists, Wang Tao thought about recommendation besides 1 Wang Tao, Continued Works of Tao Garden Letters, volume 3. “A draft of petition ” 2 Wang Tao, Additional Collection of Tao Garden Writings, volume 3, Zhongzhou Ancient Book Press, 1998, Pp143