Emperor and ancestor : state and lineage in South China / David Faure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faure, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship--China--Pearl River Delta--History.

Kinship.

Ethnicity--China--Pearl River Delta--History.

Ethnicity.

Inheritance and succession--China--Pearl River Delta--History.

Inheritance and succession.

History.

China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.

China.

China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.

China--Pearl River Delta.

Physical Description:

xii, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

State and lineage in South China

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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 and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state

Contents:

Introduction

Historical geography

Exotic Guangzhou

Confucian incursions

We and they

The land

From registered households to lineages

Early Ming society

The recession of labor service

The Yao wars and ritual orthodoxy

Administrative transition

Lineages gentrified

Lineage building: the Huo surname of Foshan

Magnates on the sands

From Ming to Qing

Gentry leadership in local society

The end of empire

The proliferation of lineage institutions

The ordering of community in ritual life

Incorporation: the power of an idea

A note on prosperity

The nineteenth-century transformation

The Mulberry Garden dike

From paramilitary to militia

Local power in the Taiping rebellion

The foreign element in Pearl River Delta Society

Contradictions of the nation-state: the backwardness of lineages

Epilogue

Beyond the Pearl River Delta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-445) and index.

ISBN:

0804753180

9780804753180

OCLC:

65201344