Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China

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.

• | Author: Lawrence Zhang
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 11, 2022
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674278288
• | ISBN-10: 0674278283