04038nam 2200637Ia 450 991045196520332120181105222914.00-8047-6793-91-4356-0883-610.1515/9780804767934(CKB)1000000000480334(OCoLC)290565472(CaPaEBR)ebrary10180137(SSID)ssj0000146145(PQKBManifestationID)12054294(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146145(PQKBWorkID)10182075(PQKB)11135851(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127663(MiAaPQ)EBC3037560(DE-B1597)581752(DE-B1597)9780804767934(EXLCZ)99100000000048033420060321d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrEmperor and ancestor[electronic resource] state and lineage in South China /David FaureStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20071 online resource (480 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8047-5318-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note for the Nonspecialist Reader -- Chapter one. Introduction -- Historical Geography -- Chapter two. Exotic Guangzhou -- Chapter three. Confucian Incursions -- Chapter four. We and They -- Chapter five. The Land -- From Registered Households to Lineages -- Chapter six. Early Ming Society -- Chapter seven. The Recession of Labor Service -- Chapter eight. The Yao Wars and Ritual Orthodoxy -- Chapter nine. Administrative Transition -- Lineages Gentrified -- Chapter ten. Lineage Building: The Huo Surname of Foshan -- Chapter eleven. Magnates on the Sands -- From Ming to Qing -- Chapter twelve. Gentry Leadership in Local Society -- Chapter thirteen. The End of Empire -- Chapter fourteen. The Proliferation of Lineage Institutions -- Chapter fifteen. The Ordering of Community in Ritual Life -- Chapter sixteen. Incorporation: The Power of an Idea -- Chapter seventeen. A Note on Prosperity -- The Nineteenth-Century Transformation -- Chapter eighteen. The Mulberry Garden Dike -- Chapter nineteen. From Paramilitary to Militia -- Chapter twenty. Local Power in the Taiping Rebellion -- Chapter twenty-one. The Foreign Element in Pearl River Delta Society -- Chapter twenty-two. Contradictions of the Nation-State: The Backwardness of Lineages -- Epilogue -- Chapter twenty-three. Beyond the Pearl River Delta -- Notes -- References -- Glossary -- IndexFaure argues that, in China, ritual provided the social glue which law provided in the West. He traces the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that they fostered the mechanisms which enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state - first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms which made group ownership of property feasible and hence possible to pool capital for land-reclamation projects important to the state.KinshipChinaPearl River DeltaHistoryEthnicityChinaPearl River DeltaHistoryInheritance and successionChinaPearl River DeltaHistoryChinaHistoryMing dynasty, 1368-1644ChinaHistoryQing dynasty, 1644-1912Electronic books.KinshipHistory.EthnicityHistory.Inheritance and successionHistory.306/.0951Faure David250252Faure David250252MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451965203321Emperor and ancestor2110764UNINA