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Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China - Harvard East Asian Monographs Lawrence Zhang
Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China - Harvard East Asian Monographs
Lawrence Zhang
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 Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 27, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674278295 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 15 mm · 454 g |
| Language | English |