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97. The Polymath by Waqas Ahmed

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The Eating of the Samurai

In Song China the bureaucrats were statesmen, artists and scientists who far from being idealist philosophers were more concerned with making practical contributions. Along with intellectual pursuits the shh exhibited habits and cultivated hobbies that not only marked their social status and refinement but made them more polymathic. The eating is a kind of divination manual, it's quite well known in the West I think, it's a divination manual from China. They aspire to be what the eating refers to as the junes or the perfect gentleman.

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