The politics of mourning in early China / / Miranda Brown

• Autore: Brown Miranda <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Albany, N.Y. : , : State University of New York Press, , 2007; ©2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 393/.90951
• Soggetto topico: Mourning customs - China
• Soggetto geografico: China Politics and government 221 B.C.-220 A.D
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- THE POLITICS OF MOURNING IN EARLY CHINA -- Contents -- Author's Note on Translations and Chinese Text -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1. Where Did All the Filial Sons Go? -- 2. Centuries of Tears and Woe -- 3. Sons and Mothers -- 4. Friends or Subordinates? -- 5. Loyal Ministers, Recluses, and Popular Heroes -- EPILOGUE: The Song Rediscovery of the Han -- APPENDIX: Overview of Han Sources Used for This Study -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book reevaluates the longstanding assumptions about early imperial political culture. According to most explanations, filial piety served as the linchpin of the social and political order, as all political relations were a seamless extension of the relationship between father and son-a relationship that was hierarchical, paternalistic, and personal. Offering a new perspective on the mourning practices and funerary monuments of the Han dynasty, the author asks whether the early imperial elite did in fact imagine political participation solely along the lines of the father-son relationship or whether there were alternative visions of political association. The early imperial elite held remarkably varied and contradictory beliefs about political life, and they had multiple templates and changing scripts for political action. This book documents and explains such diversity and variation and shows that the Han dynasty practice of mourning expressed many visions of political life, visions that left lasting legacies.
• Titolo autorizzato: The politics of mourning in early China
• ISBN: 0-7914-7980-3; 1-4356-1671-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812633203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.