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.


Format Inbunden Omfång 328 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2022-10-11 ISBN 9780674278288