shì zú

士 族

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n.privileged family of scholar-officials (which came into being during the Eastern Han, Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties)
- dōng jìn chū wáng dǎo quán lì tuī dòng qīng tán zhī fēng yǐ zhī tuán jié nán fāng shì zú ān fǔ běi fāng shì zú jìn ér gǒng gù jiāng dōng zhèng quán tǒng zhì
  东晋初，王导全力推动清谈之风，以之团结南方士族，安抚北方士族，进而巩固江东政权统治。
  Wang Dao promoted idle talk to hold together the southern scholars and appease northern scholars in the early Eastern Jin Dynasty.

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