| Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State Contributor(s): Kutcher, Norman (Author), Hannan, Patrick (Editor), Twitchett, Denis (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521030188 ISBN-13: 9780521030182 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $45.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: To win the approval of China's native elites, Qing China's new Manchu leaders developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society by observing laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian society. The first to do so in any language, Norman Kutcher's study of mourning looks beneath the rhetoric to demonstrate how the state--unwilling to make the sacrifices that a genuine commitment to proper mourning demanded--quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Death & Dying - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 393.909 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institu |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 228 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Topical - Death/Dying |