The Scholar and the State: Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China

by Liangyan Ge

Book Overview

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 (1644-1911) periods forced many to seek alternative careers. Politically engaged but excluded from their traditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295994185
• ISBN13: 9780295994185
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher