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Emperor and Ancestor
Author | : David Faure |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2007-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804753180 |
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This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that 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 that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.
Emperor and Ancestor
Author | : David Faure |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2007-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804767939 |
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This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that 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 that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.
Venerable Ancestor
Author | : Harry Hussey |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105120065052 |
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Ancestors 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family
Author | : Frank Ching |
Publsiher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0449903532 |
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This true celebration of Chinese life begins and ends with the author as he traces his family back thirty-four generations to the eleventh century. Through illuminating family portraits, the history of China comes magically alive.
The Ancestors Instructions Must Not Change Political Discourse and Practice in the Song Period
Author | : Xiaonan Deng |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2021-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004473270 |
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This book offers an account of how ‘ancestors’ instructions’ were used and abused in the Song period. It digs deeply into abundant resources to tease apart the complex and versatile relationship between the meaning and the truth of the Song discourse of ancestors’ instructions.
Chieftains Into Ancestors
Author | : David Faure,Ts'ui-p'ing Ho |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780774823685 |
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Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how one can begin to rewrite the story of a conquered people whose past was never transcribed in the first place, the authors combine anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis to build a new regional history.
Ancestors
Author | : Frank Ching |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781407029986 |
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Frank Ching brings to life 900 years of Chinese history through his own fascinating family tree. Beginning with his search for the grave of his first recorded ancestor, the 11th century poet Qin Guan, and ending with a moving account of his relationship with his father, a victim of China's historic upheaval, Frank Ching introduces a colourful cast of characters. His unbroken family line includes - among many others - a lovelorn concubine, a traitor, a military hero, an imperial ghost-writer, a minister of punishments and a woman noted for her skills in both verse and martial arts. There is scarcely an aspect of Chinese life, from shamanism to violent rebellion, that Ching doesn't touch upon in this fascinating work. Through his vivid and personal portraits of his ancestors the history of China itself unfolds: from the days of the ancient empire to its radical transformation today.