mandarinism

From the prison it is only a short distance to the judgment-seat, and passing once more through the “Gate of Righteousness,” we crossed a large court infested by gamblers and fortune-tellers, and presented ourselves at a porch with great figures painted on both its doors, and gay with the red insignia of mandarinism, which is the entrance to the stately residence of the Naam – Hoi magistrate, one of the subordinate dignitaries of Canton.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

From the prison it is only a short distance to the judgment-seat, and passing once more through the "Gate of Righteousness," we crossed a large court infested by gamblers and fortune-tellers, and presented ourselves at a porch with great figures painted on both its doors, and gay with the red insignia of mandarinism, which is the entrance to the stately residence of the Naam-Hoi magistrate, one of the subordinate dignitaries of Canton.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

I am not convinced that [Caldwell's] attempt to move the conversation to a question of who owns the means of literary production does anything more than nudge us toward a severe reification of outsiderness, an anti-brand mandarinism.

October 2009 2009

I am not convinced that [Caldwell's] attempt to move the conversation to a question of who owns the means of literary production does anything more than nudge us toward a severe reification of outsiderness, an anti-brand mandarinism.

Writing and Publishing 2010

I am not convinced that [Caldwell's] attempt to move the conversation to a question of who owns the means of literary production does anything more than nudge us toward a severe reification of outsiderness, an anti-brand mandarinism.

OCD 2009

The Baker-Hamilton Commission that Democrats are now using as cover and concealment is led by two professional commission-leaders, James Baker and Lee Hamilton, both veterans of ruling class, pasty-faced, male mandarinism -- one a Republican operative and the other a Democrat ... respectively.

Stan Goff: The Bipartisan Ship 2008

A literary decision in that it had to do with the the structure, characterisation etc. of that book, but not literary in the sense that would make it a shot in a campaign or a unit in a literary offensive against mandarinism or anything else.

MORE ON LUCKY JIM TEV 2007

A literary decision in that it had to do with the the structure, characterisation etc. of that book, but not literary in the sense that would make it a shot in a campaign or a unit in a literary offensive against mandarinism or anything else.

The Elegant Variation: TEV 2007

But Mr. Livingston indubitably dropped a clanger by admitting that his inclinations are pockmarked with sullen mandarinism and other assorted ills.

White Mob Disrupts Black Meeting Nathaniel Livingston 2005

Confucian temples, to which mandarinism resorts on certain days to bow before the Confucian tablets, are now closed, and their courts are overgrown with weeds.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004