The Scholar and the State : Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China / / 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 circum...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Seattle, Washington ;, London, England : : University of Washington Press,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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