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Power for a Price

The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China

Lawrence Zhang

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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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Hardback
Publication date: 11 Oct 2022
Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 25 mm
ISBN: 9780674278288