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