LEADER 03363oam 22006254a 450 001 9910563096303321 005 20240418052050.0 010 $a0-295-80561-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000346462 035 $a(EBL)3444621 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001422850 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12606453 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001422850 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11432439 035 $a(PQKB)11045879 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444621 035 $a(OCoLC)901269793 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37815 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88468 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000346462 100 $a20140717d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Scholar and the State $eFiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China /$fLiangyan Ge 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cUniversity of Washington Press$d2015 210 1$aSeattle, Washington ;$aLondon, England :$cUniversity of Washington Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-295-99418-5 311 $a0-295-99417-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aScholars$zChina$xHistory 606 $aLiterature and society$zChina 606 $aChinese fiction$xHistory and criticism 607 $aChina$xIntellectual life 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aLiterature: history & criticism 615 0$aScholars$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 0$aChinese fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a895.13009 700 $aGe$b Liangyan$01223094 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910563096303321 996 $aThe Scholar and the State$92837281 997 $aUNINA