abstract:Treason by the Book, by Jonathan Spence, is a fast-paced historical account of the Zeng Jing (曾靜) case which took place during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor of China, around the 1730s. Zeng Jing, a failed degree candidate heavily influenced by the seventeenth-century scholar Lü Liuliang, in October 1728 attempted to incite Yue Zhongqi (岳仲琪), Governor-general of Shaanxi-Sichuan, to rebellion.
"Creativetreason" was initiated by a Frenchliterarysociologist Robert Escarpit in his book Sciologie de la Litteature (The Sociology of Literature) in 1958.