Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Faure, David.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

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Description

xii, 464 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

State and lineage in South China

Subjects

• Ethnicity > China > Pearl River Delta > History
• Kinship > China > Pearl River Delta > History
• China > History > Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
• Inheritance and succession > China > Pearl River Delta > History
• China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

JFE 07-3238

ISBN

• 0804753180 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780804753180 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006009696

OCLC

65201344

Author

Faure, David.

Title

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

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Bibliography

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

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Research Call Number

JFE 07-3238