The Scholar-officials Politics Of The Late Eastern Han Dynasty

The scholar-officials politics of the late Eastern Han dynasty play the important role in ancient China. It presented all kinds of features of the scholar-officials politics. It wasn't far away from the period of Wu Di emperor who initiated this politics.The later politics, including the imperial examination politics and privileged families politics originated from the scholar-officials politics of the late Eastern Han dynasty.The scholar-officials politics showed three tendency: elitist, aristocratic and ennoblement. Privilege family was social and economical basis of this politics, the Confucius commending and spreading was its cultural basis. During this period, the scholar-officials hoped to participate in government and political affairs, hope to owning their materials and consolidated their family force.After analyze the historical records, we can found the scholar-officials occupied a dominant position in the central and local government ,they play the important role in the government. Even if the hermit ,the students of the imperial and local academy who owned Confucius background participated in government and political affairs widespread and profound .During the late period, the Eastern Han dynasty had becoming corrupt politics .