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100	1		_aZhang, Lawrence, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPower for a Price : _bThe Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China / _cLawrence Zhang.
246	3		_aThe Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China
264		1	_aMassachusetts ; _aCambridge : _bHarvard University Asia Center, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_tPreliminary Material / _rLawrence Zhang -- Introduction / _rLawrence Zhang -- General Principles / _rLawrence Zhang -- Personnel Management / _rLawrence Zhang -- Silver Revenue / _rLawrence Zhang -- Climbing the Ladder / _rLawrence Zhang -- Family Strategy / _rLawrence Zhang -- Imperial Assent / _rLawrence Zhang -- The Critical Response / _rLawrence Zhang -- Historian's Hindsight / _rLawrence Zhang -- All Offices Purchasable in 1798 / _rLawrence Zhang -- Regulations for Sales in 1673 / _rLawrence Zhang -- Glossary / _rLawrence Zhang -- Bibliography / _rLawrence Zhang -- Index / _rLawrence Zhang -- Harvard East Asian Monographs / _rLawrence Zhang.
520			_aThe 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			_aEnglish
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aCivil service _zChina _xHistory.
650		0	_aPolitical corruption _zChina _xHistory.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tPower for a Price : The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China. _dMassachusetts ; Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. _z9780674278288 _w(OCoLC)1338303327 _w(DLC) 2022019690
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781684176687
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