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The Scholar and the State: Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China
The Scholar and the State Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China
Author: Liangyan Ge
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 circumstances in the Ming (1368?1644) and Qing (1644?...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780295994185
ISBN-10: 0295994185
Publication Date: 2/11/2017
Pages: 292
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Book Type: Paperback
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