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In Chinese history, the gentry has a specific meaning and refers to the shen-shi or the class of landowners that had passed the Imperial examination|bureaucratic examinations in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In European history gentry refers to well-to-do or wealthy England|English landowners below the level of nobility. They played an important role in the English Civil War of the seventeenth century. See also Landed gentry Category:Social sciences This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Gentry".
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