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Literati

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Literati may refer to:

  • Intellectuals or those who love, read, and comment on literature
  • Intelligentsia, a status class of highly educated people who consciously shape society
  • The scholar-official or literati of imperial/medieval China
    • Qing literati
    • Literati painting, also known as the southern school of painting, developed by Chinese literati
    • The literati style of bonsai, consisting of thin, elegant trees in the calligraphic style of literati painting
    • Confucianism, known as the school of literati
  • Bunjinga (文人画, "literati painting"), a Japanese painting style from the late Edo period inspired from medieval Chinese literati painting ;
  • The game Literati, a variant of Scrabble developed by Yahoo! Games
  • Literati (book club), children's book club