ISBN:
9780511572746
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 210 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions
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DDC:
393/.9/0951
Keywords:
Geschichte 1368-1911
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Alltag, Brauchtum
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Mourning customs / China
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Funeral rites and ceremonies / China
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Filial piety / China
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Trauerritual
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Bestattungsritus
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China / Social life and customs / 1644-1912
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China
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China
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Bestattungsritus
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Geschichte 1368-1911
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China
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Trauerritual
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Geschichte 1368-1911
Abstract:
As a conquest dynasty, Qing China's new Manchu leaders desperately needed to legitimize their rule. To win the approval of China's native elites, they developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society. Filial piety, the core Confucian value, would once again be upheld by the state, and laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian society, would be observed by officials throughout the empire. In this way, the emperor would be following the ancient dictate that he 'govern all-under-heaven with filial piety'. 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. With acute sensitivity to language and its changing meanings, Kutcher sheds light on a wide variety of issues that are of interest to historians of late Imperial China
Description / Table of Contents:
Death and the state in imperial China: continuities -- The reorientation of Ming attitudes toward mourning -- The early Qing transformation of mourning practice -- The bureaucratization of the Confucian -- The death of Xiaoxian and the crisis of Qianlong rule -- Death and Chinese society
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511572746
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