The Scholar and the State Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China
In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circum...
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University of Washington Press
2015
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