Bureaucratic Constraints on Nepotism in the Ch'ing Period

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ID3645562
AuthorsRobert M Marsh (corresponding author)
Year1960
Volume19
Issue2
Pages117-133
Publication date1960-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2943544
OpenAlexW1976029609
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

In China during the Ch'ing period, as before, many Confucian values were so family-centered as to tolerate degrees of nepotism not acceptable in some other societies. Ideally, of course, Confucian values admitted of no conflict between loyalty to the Emperor and loyalty to close relatives and friends. Nevertheless, conflicts between public and private interests were recognized at least as early as theMeng-tzuand were typified in such expressions as "robbing the public to help the private" (chiakung chi-ssu) and "putting the family first and the nation last" (hsien chia-tsu erh hou kuo-chia). But whatever may have been the nepotistic intent of officials, there was during the Ch'ing period, at least before the Taiping rebellion, a great centralization of imperial authority

Adversary · Ancient history · Bureaucracy · China · Computer security · Emperor · Genealogy · Loyalty · Nepotism · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy

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