The Scholar and the State
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
2023
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| author | Ge, Liangyan |
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| description | 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 bureaucratic roles, creative writers authored critiques of state power in the form of fiction written in the vernacular language. In this study, Liangyan Ge examines the novels Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Scholars, Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as Story of the Stone), and a number of erotic pieces, showing that as the literati class grappled with its own increasing marginalization, its fiction reassessed the assumption that intellectuals’ proper role was to serve state interests and began to imagine possibilities for a new political order. The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1223672025-03-24T03:49:20Z The Scholar and the State Ge, Liangyan Asian Studies, Literary Studies 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 bureaucratic roles, creative writers authored critiques of state power in the form of fiction written in the vernacular language. In this study, Liangyan Ge examines the novels Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Scholars, Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as Story of the Stone), and a number of erotic pieces, showing that as the literati class grappled with its own increasing marginalization, its fiction reassessed the assumption that intellectuals’ proper role was to serve state interests and began to imagine possibilities for a new political order. The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation. 2023-11-17T10:17:12Z 2023-11-17T10:17:12Z 2023-08-28T08:10:33Z 2015 book ONIX_20230828_9780295805610_20 OCN: 1298401007 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75807 9780295805610 9780295994178 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122367 eng open access image/png image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75807/8/9780295805610.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75807/8/9780295805610.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75807/1/9780295805610.pdf University of Washington Press University of Washington Press 10.6069/9780295805610 10.6069/9780295805610 05b43d6c-b025-4c47-9778-32ac09131cc4 daf6b6ea-bb2a-4ef2-8a69-80df6f6120e5 9780295805610 9780295994178 University of Washington Press 292 Seattle [...] open access |
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