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Emperor and Ancestor : State and Lineage in South China.

Faure argues that, in China, ritual provided the social glue which law provided in the West. He traces the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that they fostered the mechanisms which enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state - first,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Faure, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2007.
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