Power for a Price : (Record no. 42366)
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| control field | BRILL9781684176687 |
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781684176687 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic book) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780674278288 |
| Qualifying information | (print) |
| 024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 10.1163/9781684176687 |
| Source of number or code | DOI |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)1410433391 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | NL-LeKB |
| Transcribing agency | NL-LeKB |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | JQ1512.Z13 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | HBJF |
| Source | bicssc |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | HIS |
| Subject category code subdivision | 003000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | HIS |
| Subject category code subdivision | 026000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 351.51 |
| Edition information | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Zhang, Lawrence, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Power for a Price : |
| Remainder of title | The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Lawrence Zhang. |
| 246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Massachusetts ; |
| -- | Cambridge : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Harvard University Asia Center, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2022. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2022 |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Title | Preliminary Material / |
| Statement of responsibility | Lawrence Zhang -- Introduction / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- General Principles / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Personnel Management / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Silver Revenue / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Climbing the Ladder / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Family Strategy / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Imperial Assent / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- The Critical Response / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Historian's Hindsight / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- All Offices Purchasable in 1798 / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Regulations for Sales in 1673 / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Glossary / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Bibliography / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Index / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang -- Harvard East Asian Monographs / |
| -- | Lawrence Zhang. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The Qing dynasty office purchase system ( juanna ), which allowed individuals to pay for appointments in the government, was regarded in traditional Chinese historiography as an inherently corrupt and anti-meritocratic practice. It enabled participants to become civil and military officials while avoiding the competitive government-run examination systems. Lawrence Zhang's groundbreaking study of a broad selection of new archival and other printed evidence—including a list of over 10,900 purchasers of offices from 1798 and narratives of purchase—contradicts this widely held assessment and investigates how observers and critics of the system, past and present, have informed this questionable negative view. The author argues that, rather than seeing office purchase as a last resort for those who failed to obtain official appointments via other means, it was a preferred method for wealthy and well-connected individuals to leverage their social capital to the fullest extent. Office purchase was thus not only a useful device that raised funds for the state, but also a political tool that, through literal investments in their positions and their potential to secure status and power, tied the interests of official elites ever more closely to those of the state. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Civil service |
| Geographic subdivision | China |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Political corruption |
| Geographic subdivision | China |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Title | Power for a Price : The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Massachusetts ; Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780674278288 |
| Record control number | (OCoLC)1338303327 |
| -- | (DLC) 2022019690 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | DOI: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781684176687">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781684176687</a> |
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