Power for a Price : The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
ISBN-10
0674278283
ISBN-13
9780674278288
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 11th, 2022
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
564 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.70 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Asian historySocial & cultural historyPublic administration
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The Qing dynasty office purchase system (juanna), which allowed individuals to pay for government appointments, was regarded in traditional Chinese historiography as inherently corrupt and anti-meritocratic. Lawrence Zhang’s groundbreaking study of a broad selection of new archival and other printed evidence contradicts this widely held assessment.
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