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: 0521624398 ISBN-13: 9780521624398 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1999 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 |
LCCN: 98-36386 |
Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature, and Instit |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.2" W x 9.16" (1.02 lbs) 226 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Topical - Death/Dying |