Category
page 1Social class in China
Four occupations
Confucian term from ancient China that collectively refers to the populace through occupational categories: shì (gentry scholars), nóng (peasant farmers), gōng (artisans and craftsmen), and shāng (merchants and traders)

scholar-official
right|thumb|220px|A 15th-century portrait of the Ming dynasty|Ming official [[Jiang Shunfu. The decoration of two egrets on his chest are a "mandarin square", indicating that he was a civil official of the sixth rank.]]
The scholar-officials, also known as literati, scholar-gentlemen or scholar-bureaucrats (), were government officials and prestigious scholars in Chinese society, forming a distinct social class.

fuerdai
Fuerdai (; ) is a Chinese term for the children of the nouveau riche in China. This term, generally considered pejorative, is often invoked in the Chinese media and everyday discussions in mainland China as it incorporates some of the social and moral problems associated with modern Chinese society.

Retainers in early China
social group in early China
rat tribe
low-income migrant workers in China
Baixing
Baixing () or lao baixing () is a traditional Chinese term, meaning "the people" or "commoners." The word "lao" () is often added as a prefix before "baixing".
Landed gentry (China)
Cabang Atas
Chinese gentry of colonial Indonesia