Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China - Harvard East Asian Monographs - Lawrence Zhang - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674278288 - October 11, 2022
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Lawrence Zhang
Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China - Harvard East Asian Monographs

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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.

338 pages, 3 illus., 4 color illus., 19 tables

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released October 11, 2022
ISBN13 9780674278288
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 328
Dimensions 237 × 159 × 25 mm   ·   564 g
Language English  

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