For self-exiled scholar-painters during the Yuan dynasty, bamboo symbolized

a) the Chinese people’s dominance over the land.
b) the theft of Chinese soil by Mongol invaders.
c) the Chinese people’s ability to bend and not break.
d) the unifying principle of the Chinese world

Answer: C

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