Power for a Price. The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China, Hardback - Lawrence Zhang

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, Asia Center
• Author(s): Lawrence Zhang
• Illustration(s): 1 photo, 1 illus., 4 color illus., 19 tables
• Number of pages: 328
• Collection: Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Publication date: 2022
• Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 25
• Cover type: Hardback