Comment on When life gives you lemons, overthrow the government

BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pretty sure he was an aristocrat. “Low-ranking official” in this context basically means “from an unimportant noble family, or low-ranking within a medium-importance noble family.”

  Basically, infinitely higher standing than a peasant, yet still the dirt beneath the shoes of the high-ranking nobles.

  Confucian bureaucracies were highly stratified.

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