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While the customary path to achievement in traditional China was through service to the state, from the earliest times certain individuals had been acclaimed for repudiating an official career. This book traces the formulation and portrayal of the practice of reclusion in China from the earliest times through the sixth century, by which time reclusion had taken on its enduring character. Those men who decided to withhold their service to state governance fit the dictum from the Book of Changes of a man who does not serve a king or lord; he elevates in priority his own affairs. This characterization came to serve as a byword of individual and voluntary withdrawal, the image of the man whose lofty resolve could not be humbled for service to a temporal ruler. Men who eschewed official appointments in favor of pursuing their own personal ideals were known by such appellations as hidden men (yinshi), disengaged persons (yimin), high-minded men (gaoshi), and scholars-at-home (chushi).

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Book category Books in English Humanities History General & world history

• Full title: Patterns of Disengagement
• Subtitle: The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China
• Author: Alan J. Berkowitz
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780804736039
• ISBN: 0804736030
• ID: 04716968
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 553 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2000

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