Mourning in Late Imperial China - Filial Piety and the State

Klappentext Kutcher's study of mourning demonstrates how Qing China's Manchu leaders quietly but forcefully undermined! not reinvigorated! the Confucian mourning system. Zusammenfassung Norman Kutcher's study of mourning looks beneath the rhetoric to demonstrate how Qing China's Manchu leaders - unwilling to make the sacrifices that a genuine commitment to proper mourning demanded - quietly but forcefully undermined! not reinvigorated! the Confucian mourning system. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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; Select bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Norman Kutcher, Norman (Syracuse University Kutcher
• Assisted by: Patrick Hannan (Editor), Denis Twitchett (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521030182
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03018-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories