TY - BOOK AU - Ge,Liangyan ED - Project Muse. TI - The Scholar and the State : : Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China / SN - 9780295805610 PY - 2015///] CY - London PB - University of Washington Press KW - Scholars KW - fast KW - Literature and society KW - Intellectual life KW - Chinese fiction KW - HISTORY KW - Asia KW - China KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Asian KW - General KW - Savants KW - Chine KW - Histoire KW - Litterature et societe KW - Roman chinois KW - Histoire et critique KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - A rugged partnership: the intellectual elite and the imperial state -- The romance of the three kingdoms: the Mencian view of political sovereignty -- The scholar-lover in erotic fiction: a power game of selection -- The scholars: trudging out of a textual swamp -- The stone in dream of the red chamber: unfit to repair the azure sky -- Coda: Out of the imperial shadow; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/38161/ ER -