Mourning in Late Imperial China - Filial Piety and the State

List 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; Select bibliography; Index.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Kutcher
• Assisted by: Patrick Hannan (Editor), Denis Twitchett (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521624398
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62439-8
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 524 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories