Liangyan Ge: 1 book
The Scholar and the State
Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
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...
