Details

Subject(s)

• Cheating (Education)—China [Browse]
• Civil service—China—Examinations [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Essays [Browse]

Notes

• Manuscript on silk cloth.
• Title devised by cataloger.
• Text of Confucian canon (in red ink) and essay responses (in black ink) handwritten in brush pen on one side of a satin sheet, folded into 8 sections. In minuscule font size. A single word "yi" (propriety) on the back side. Prepared for cheating in imperial civil service examinations. The sheet would have been well hidden on a person, or, more likely, sewn into clothing.

Other title(s)

義

Word on back side

• Yi
• 義

OCLC

179143842

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