WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Scholar-officials holding significant political power were granted privacy in their communications (a concept called “judicial privilege") and were insulated from accountability should they commit a crime or serious offense.

Detailed explanation-2: -The imperial examinations were a civil service examination system to select scholar-officials for the state bureaucracy in imperial China. Although there were imperial exams as early as the Han dynasty, the system became the major path to office only in the mid-Tang dynasty, and remained so until its abolition in 1905.

Detailed explanation-3: -15.3 Who were scholar-officials? They were people who took the civil service exam in order to work to the government.