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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Reimagining China
2 Refugee State: A Brief Chronicle of the Eastern Chin
The Socioeconomic Order
4 The Institutional Machinery of Literati Ascendance
5 Literati Culture
6 “True Man”: The Power of a Cultural Ideal
7 Epilogue: Imperial Restoration
Notes
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index
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