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Autobiography and Symbolic Capital in Late Imperial China This is a repository copy of Autobiography and Symbolic Capital in Late Imperial China. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/139501/ Version: Supplemental Material Article: Pattinson, D orcid.org/0000-0003-4166-7568 (2018) Autobiography and Symbolic Capital in Late Imperial China. Ming Qing Yanjiu, 22 (1). pp. 45-69. ISSN 1724-8574 https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340020 © 2018 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Ming Qing Yanjiu. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. 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