Friends, Guests, and Colleagues The MU-FU System in the Late Ch'ing Period

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. yellow cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrations. Glossary. Genealogyof the Li Family of Ho-fei. Bibliography. Index. An unofficial institution which personalized the bureaucratic central administration and eventually helped China to modernize, especially in the late 19th century.