A Chinese Mandarin Official Would Best Be Described as Having

Multiple Choice

A Chinese mandarin official would best be described as having been

A) more concerned with his philosophical development than with participating actively in the government.
B) a skilled artist and poet, but also a hard-nosed businessman.
C) educated for the sole purpose of achieving power.
D) more of an ideal than a reality.
E) steeped in his society's culture, yet filled with civic duty.