Question

Why would scholars not make a good government official?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Scholar-officials, also known as literati, scholar-gentlemen or scholar-bureaucrats  was a collective name of scholars serving as government officials and prestigious scholars in the society, and it also can represent the special social class formed by these groups of intellectuals.

A 15th-century portrait of the Ming official Jiang Shunfu. The decoration of two egrets on his chest are a "mandarin square", indicating that he was a civil official of the sixth rank.

Scholar-officials work in government were politicians and government officials appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day political duties from the Han dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912, China's last imperial dynasty. After the Sui dynasty these officials mostly came from the scholar-gentry who had earned academic degrees (such as xiucai, juren, or jinshi) by passing the imperial examinations. Scholar-official was the elite class of imperial China. This is a highly educated group of people and generally good at literatures and arts, and they were schooled in calligraphy and Confucian texts. They dominated the government administration and local life of China until the early-20th century.