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Emperor and Ancestor : State and Lineage in South China /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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