In this thesis, we focus on Gu Xiancheng and the Donglin Movement in later Ming Dynasty. Our purpose is to reveal the relationship between the intellectual and the politics in traditional society by analyzing the diversity of Scholar-Bureaucrats' life style.
The Scholar-Bureaucrats played multiple roles in traditional society:firstly, as the traditional intellectuals, they were the interpreters and the inheritors of the culture; secondly, they were the bureaucracies of the political system; thirdly, as ...