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

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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ge, Liangyan (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle, Washington ; London, England : University of Washington Press 2015
2015.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Scholars > China > History.
Literature and society > China.
Chinese fiction > History and criticism.
China > Intellectual life.
Literature: history & criticism
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009657633406719
Table of Contents:
  • A rugged partnership: the intellectual elite and the imperial state
  • The romance of the three kingdoms: the Mencian view of political sovereignty
  • The scholar-lover in erotic fiction: a power game of selection
  • The scholars: trudging out of a textual swamp
  • The stone in dream of the red chamber: unfit to repair the azure sky
  • Coda: Out of the imperial shadow.

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