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Mourning in Late Imperial China - Filial Piety and the State (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,517
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Mourning in Late Imperial China - Filial Piety and the State (Hardcover): Norman Kutcher

Mourning in Late Imperial China - Filial Piety and the State (Hardcover)

Norman Kutcher

Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions

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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.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions
Release date: August 1999
First published: 1999
Authors: Norman Kutcher
Dimensions: 235 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-62439-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Customs
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
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LSN: 0-521-62439-8
Barcode: 9780521624398

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