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

Liangyan Ge

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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Scholar and the State: Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China. To get started finding The Scholar and the State: Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Scholar and the State: Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China. To get started finding The Scholar and the State: Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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