The Hanlin Academy was an academic and administrative institution of higher learning founded in the 8th century in Tang China by Emperor Xuanzong in Chang'an. It has also been translated as College of Literature and Academy of the Forest of Pencils. Membership was confined to an elite group of scholars, who performed secretarial and literary tasks for the court. One of its primary duties was to decide on an interpretation of the Chinese classics, which formed the basis of the imperial examinations that aspiring government bureaucrats had to pass to attain higher-level posts. Painters working for the court were also attached to the academy.
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The Hanlin Academy was an academic and administrative institution of higher learning founded in the 8th century Tang China by Emperor Xuanzong in Chang'an.
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The Hanlin Academy was an academic and administrative institution of higher learning founded in the 8th century Tang China by Emperor Xuanzong in Chang'an.
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In his career as a scholar-official for the central government, Shen Kuo was also an ambassador to the Western Xia dynasty and Liao dynasty, a military commander, a director of hydraulic works, and the leading chancellor of the Hanlin Academy.
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