Learned or literary men. See Literatus.

the literary intelligentsia

See literari painting.

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A social class of Chinese men, trained in Confucian classics, who cultivated the arts—painting, calligraphy, poetry, and music. Some served the state as scholar officials—and all played the reclusive role of retired gentlemen.

(lit uh rä'tee). . pretentious and humorless writers of novels or stories.