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100 1  Wu, Jingzi,|d1701-1754. 
240 10 Ru lin wai shi.|lEnglish 
245 14 The scholars|h[Hoopla electronic resource]. 
250    Unabridged. 
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511 1  Read by Jia Wei. 
520    The Scholars describes the life activities of various 
       Chinese Confucius scholars, mostly under the early Jiajing
       period of the Ming dynasty. Most of them are corrupted 
       scholars, however. Some of them are overly obsessed by the
       fame and glory of civil service to the point of losing all
       sanity and became mentally unstable. Some of them are 
       theoretically dogmatic, rigidly follow the old writing 
       style and denied all flexibility and innovation. Some of 
       them are hypocrites, spending days talking about morality 
       and ethics but actually live a despicable and useless 
       life. Some of them are corrupted by fame and glory; they 
       are eager to sacrifice relatives and family for more fame,
       more glory. Via the corrupted Confucius scholars, Wu 
       Jingzi indirectly criticized the civil service examination
       and education system under the Qing dynasty. The author 
       could not directly attack the ruling Qing dynasty, which 
       could lead to capital punishment; therefore he chose to 
       portray his story in the Ming period, which was 
       increasingly dogmatic and meaningless, criticized the 
       cruel government officials who treated the people with 
       violence and exploited them brutally, and criticized the 
       backward feudal "moral codes" which confined people in an 
       ideological prison.  Wu Jingzi did create several "good" 
       characters as model for an ideal Confucius scholar. They 
       uphold a moral life, they cannot be corrupted by fame or 
       money, and they despise the contemporary civil service of 
       Chinese feudal government. One of them, the scholar Du, is
       strikingly similar to the author: descended from a well-to
       -do family, spent all of the family assets and became 
       poverty-stricken, hated the civil officials, expressed 
       progressive ideas and was strongly critical of the popular
       Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism dogma. Via the character Du, Wu 
       Jingzi portrayed women sympathetically as Du treated his 
       wife kindly and equally in the time when women were 
       considered inferior to men. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Chinese literature|vTranslations into English. 
651  0 China|xHistory|vFiction. 
700 1  Yang, Xianyi,|d1915-2009. 
700 1  Yang, Gladys. 
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