How To Reject A Job Offer With Style

How did Ji Kang, one of the Seven Bamboo Sages, respond when Jin Dynasty officials made him an offer he couldn’t refuse?

There’s nothing more dangerous for a Chinese intellectual than being an out-of-the-closet Taoist when a powerfully Confucian government takes over. That’s the situation in which Ji Kang and his fellow refugee scholars, attempting to evade a stifling life of administrative conformity and its never ending obligations, found themselves during the Three Kingdoms period of 3rd c...