Genealogy and Status : Hereditary Office Holding and Kinship in North China under Mongol Rule / / Tomoyasu Iiyama

• Autore: Iiyama Tomoyasu
• Pubblicazione: Massachusetts ; ; Cambridge : , : Harvard University Asia Center, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 pages)
• Disciplina: 929.20951
• Soggetto topico: Mongols - History - To 1500; Nobility - China - Genealogy; Stele (Archaeology) - China
• Soggetto geografico: China History Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368; China History Jin dynasty, 1115-1234; China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Introduction / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Pursuing and Maintaining Political Success under Mongol Rule / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Genealogical Steles -- Evolution and Social and Cultural Background / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Navigating Yuan Officialdom / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Kinship Imagined in Genealogical Stele Inscriptions / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- The Reinterpretation of Genealogical Stele Inscriptions after the Demise of Mongol Rule / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Mongol Rule in North China / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- The Geographical Definition of North China / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Genealogical Steles from the Jin / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Genealogical Steles from the Yuan / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Topological Analysis of the Jin-Yuan Genealogical Steles / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Marriage Cases from Jin Mengzhou / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Marriage Cases from Yuan Genealogical Steles / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Genealogical Steles from the Ming / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Notes / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Bibliography / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Index / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama -- Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series / Author: Tomoyasu Iiyama.
• Sommario/riassunto: By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre that flourished in North China during the Mongol Empire, or Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368), Genealogy and Status explores the ways the conquered Chinese people understood and represented the alien Mongol ruling principles through their own cultural tradition. This epigraphic genre, which this book collectively calls “genealogical steles,” was quite unique in the history of Chinese epigraphy. Northern Chinese officials commissioned these steles exclusively to record a family’s extensive genealogy, rather than the biography or achievements of an individual. Tomoyasu Iiyama shows how the rise of these steles demonstrates that Mongol rule fundamentally affected how northern Chinese families defined, organized, and commemorated their kinship. Because most of these inscriptions are in Classical Chinese, they appear to be part of Chinese tradition. In fact, they reflect a massive social change in Chinese society that occurred because of Mongol rule in China. The evolution of genealogical steles delineates how local elites, while thinking of themselves as the heirs of traditional Chinese culture, fully accommodated to Mongol imperial rule and became instead one of its cornerstones in eastern Eurasia. See Less
• Altri titoli varianti: Hereditary Office Holding and Kinship in North China under Mongol Rule
• Titolo autorizzato: Genealogy and Status
• ISBN: 1-68417-657-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911026044103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; ; Volume 135.