This social class--the literati--doesn't seem to have existed in the West. In the Enlightenment movement, Rousseau wanted to return to nature, but a huge class of literati as in China did not come into being.
西方好像沒有這個階層，啟蒙運動的盧騷提倡回到自然，但還沒有像中國形成整個龐大的文人階層。