ISBN:
0804753180
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9780804753180
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9781435608832
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1435608836
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 464 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Emperor and ancestor
DDC:
306.0951
Keywords:
Kinship History
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China
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Pearl River Delta
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Ethnicity History
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China
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Pearl River Delta
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Inheritance and succession History
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China
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Pearl River Delta
;
Ethnicity History
;
Inheritance and succession History
;
Kinship History
;
Kinship History
;
Inheritance and succession History
;
Ethnicity History
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Ethnicity
;
Inheritance and succession
;
Kinship
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Qing Dynasty (China)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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History
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China History
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Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
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China History
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Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
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China
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China
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Pearl River Delta
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China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
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China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
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China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
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China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
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China
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China ; Pearl River Delta
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionHistorical 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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