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  2. Scholar-official - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] Song was the only dynasty in Chinese history that provided scholar-officials judicial privilege. Due to the influence of the founding emperor of Song Zhao Kuangyin, almost all Song emperors showed great respect to intellectuals. If a scholar-official from the Song dynasty committed a crime, he couldn't be held accountable directly.

  3. Four occupations - Wikipedia

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    A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...

  4. List of sinologists - Wikipedia

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    Its origin "may be traced to the examination which Chinese scholars made of their own civilization." [1] The field of sinology was historically seen to be equivalent to the application of philology to China, and until the 20th century was generally seen as meaning "Chinese philology" (language and literature). [2]

  5. Mandarin (bureaucrat) - Wikipedia

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    A 15th-century portrait of the Ming official Jiang Shunfu.The cranes on his mandarin square indicate that he was a civil official of the sixth rank. A Qing photograph of a government official with mandarin square embroidered in front A European view: a mandarin travelling by boat, Baptista van Doetechum, 1604 Nguyễn Văn Tường (chữ Hán: 阮文祥, 1824–1886) was a mandarin of the ...

  6. Academic ranks in China - Wikipedia

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    Guest professor, or commonly visiting professor (客座教授), usually awarded to distinguished visiting scholars; Administrative ranks. Secretary of the CPC Committee (党委书记), similar to Chancellor, who usually does not take administrative responsibilities

  7. Four arts - Wikipedia

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    Chinese calligraphy differs from western calligraphic script in the sense that it was done with a brush instead of metal implements or a quill. Calligraphy was the art by which a scholar could compose his thoughts to be immortalized. It was the scholar's means of creating expressive poetry and sharing his or her own learnedness.

  8. Jinshi - Wikipedia

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    Jinshi (Chinese: 進士; pinyin: jìnshì) was the highest and final degree in the imperial examination in Imperial China. [1] The examination was usually taken in the imperial capital in the palace, and was also called the Metropolitan Exam. Recipients are sometimes referred to in English-language sources as Imperial Scholars. [2]

  9. Category:Chinese scholars - Wikipedia

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    This category is for Chinese scholars of the pre-modern period, especially those who took the Imperial examinations for Scholar-bureaucrats. Modern Chinese figures should be classified under the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Chinese academics , Category:Chinese educators etc.