Mourning in Late Imperial China
Filial Piety and the State
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- Author: Norman Kutcher, Syracuse University, New York
- Date Published: November 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030182
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To win the approval of China's native elites, Qing China's new Manchu leaders developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society by observing laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian society. The first to do so in any language, Norman Kutcher's study of mourning looks beneath the rhetoric to demonstrate how the state--unwilling to make the sacrifices that a genuine commitment to proper mourning demanded--quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system.
Read more- A study of filial piety and mourning in China
- Skilfully blends intellectual and institutional history
- Changes our understanding of the Ming-Qing transition and illuminates questions of rulership in the Qing
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"Noman Kutcher has written an engaging and provocative book about personal and political aspects of mouring in seventeenth and eighteenth- century China...This book should be read by all who are interestes in late imperial culture and politics." Amer His Rev
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030182
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 154 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.354kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus. 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
A note on conventions
Reigns of Ming and Qing emperors
Introduction
1. Death and the state in imperial China: continuities
2. The reorientation of Ming attitudes toward mourning
3. The early Qing transformation of mourning practice
4. The bureaucratization of the Confucian li
5. The death of Xiaoxian and the crisis of Qianlong rule
6. Death and Chinese society
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