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This volume of nine essays draws together leading scholars in
anthropology, social history, musicology, and ethnomusicology to
address the roles and functions of music in the Chinese ritual
context. How does music, one of a constellation of essential
performative elements in almost all rituals, empower an officiant,
legitimate an officeholder, create a heightened state of awareness,
convey a message, or produce a magical outcome, a transition, a
transformation? After an introduction by the volume editors, Bell
Yung proposes a theoretical framework for dealing with Chinese
ritual sound. A group of three essays focuses on the music for
rituals that create political and social legitimacy followed by a
second group of essays considering the music associated with rites
of passage. Two essays then deal with the music accompanying
rituals of propitiation. In all these cases, music is seen to play
a critical role, if not the core of the ritual.
In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski
challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of
dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture
from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues that China has
been shaped by its relations with Japan, Korea, the Jurchen/Manchu
and Mongol States, and must therefore be viewed both within the
context of a regional framework, and as part of a global maritime
network of trade. Drawing on a rich variety of Japanese, Korean,
Manchu and Chinese archival sources, Rawski analyses the conflicts
and regime changes that accompanied the region's integration into
the world economy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Early Modern China and Northeast Asia places Sino-Korean and
Sino-Japanese relations within the context of northeast Asian
geopolitics, surveying complex relations which continue to this
day.
The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest
of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from
the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural
and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book,
Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new interpretation of the remarkable
success of this dynasty, arguing that it derived not from the
assimilation of the dominant Chinese culture, as has previously
been believed, but rather from an artful synthesis of Manchu
leadership styles with Han Chinese policies.
During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by
ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as
those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What
held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars
have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as
instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the
manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of
essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this
important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the
unification of Chinese culture.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1985.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1985.
During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers
consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever
known. In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the
most recent research to provide a unique overview and reevaluation
of the social history of China during this period--one of the most
dynamic periods in China's early modern era. "A lucid, original,
and scholarly summary of the social, economic, and demographic
history of China's last great period of glory. This will be an
important book for students of Chinese history."-Jonathan Spence,
Yale University "Engaging, complex, and elegantly written. . . .
Absorbing and valuable: a thorough, unique, and richly detailed
account of the social forms and cultural and religious life of the
people."-Choice "[An] interesting and well-informed survey of China
between about 1680 and 1820."-W.J.F. Jenner, Asian Affairs "I would
be a very odd scholar or general reader who could not derive profit
from reading this elegant and painstaking survey of the social,
cultural, and economic life of the Qing empire in its apparent
prime. . . . A superb survey which readers may absorb and
cherish."-Alexander Woodside, Pacific Affairs "A highly readable
synthesis of recent secondary literature on the subject."-William
S. Atwell, Journal of Asian Studies "Their coverage is
comprehensive and their writing is clear and lucid. reading this
book obtains one a very broad, yet penetrative, view of Chinese
society at the time."-Alan P.L. Liu, Asian Thought & Society
"The ground covered by this book is vast. . . . Its very breadth
conveys with great clarity the extent of current knowledge of
premodern China: it also serves as an excellent introduction to the
social history of the Qing dynasty."-Hugh D.R. Baker, China
Quarterly "This is a most challenging work and ambitious work. . .
. Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century give both the general
reader and also the historian who does not study China a tool for
grounding himself or herself in the basic patterns and trends that
could be found in eighteenth century China as well as in the
problems the specialists are now exploring. The book is also of
great value to students of traditional and modern China, for it
serves to synthesize much of the new literature on China in the
High Qing. Thus it serves the 'China hand' as a state of the field
essay that shows just where we are even as it suggests directions
for future research."-Murray A. Rubinstein, American Asian Review
"This excellent book provides an intelligent summary our rapidly
changing understanding of Chinese society in a crucial century of
political stability and economic and demographic expansion. Susan
Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski are distinguished contributors to the
field, energetically engaged in its multinational communication
networks."-John E. Wills, Jr., American Historical Review
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