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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faure, David.

Contributor:

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.

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

China.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

State and lineage in South China

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms which made group ownership of property feasible and hence possible to pool capital for land-reclamation projects important to the state.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8047-6793-9

1-4356-0883-6

OCLC:

290565472