Emperor and ancestor : state and lineage in South China / / David Faure

• Autore: Faure David
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.0951
• Soggetto topico: Kinship - China - Pearl River Delta - History; Ethnicity - China - Pearl River Delta - History; Inheritance and succession - China - Pearl River Delta - History
• Soggetto geografico: China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644; China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
• Altri autori: FaureDavid
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Faure 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: State and lineage in South China
• Titolo autorizzato: Emperor and ancestor
• ISBN: 0-8047-6793-9; 1-4356-0883-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809914303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II