Power for a Price (inbunden, eng)

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