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Author Ge, Liangyan, author.

Title The scholar and the state : fiction as political discourse in late imperial China / Liangyan Ge.

Publication Info. Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary 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.
Language English.
Subject Chinese fiction -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- China.
Scholars -- China -- History.
China -- Intellectual life.
Roman chinois -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société -- Chine.
Savants -- Chine -- Histoire.
Chine -- Vie intellectuelle.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Chinese fiction
Intellectual life
Literature and society
Scholars
China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3
Indexed Term Literature: history & criticism
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Other Form: Print version: The scholar and the state Seattle ; University of Washington Press, [2015] 9780295994178 (hardcover : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2014007526
ISBN 9780295805610 ebook
0295805617
9780295994178 hardcover : acid-free paper
9780295994185 pbk. : acid-free paper
0295994177
0295994185
Standard No. AU@ 000054202527
AU@ 000062430171
NLGGC 389058858

 
    
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