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Emperor and ancestor : state and lineage in South China

Faure, David.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Author: Faure, David.
Subject: Kinship
Ethnicity
Inheritance and succession
Publication Year:2007
Language:English
Published:Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007
ISBN:9780804753180
0804753180
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-445) and index
Introduction -- Historical 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
Course: HIST311
HIST214

Availability at HKSYU Library


Location Call number Status
English Book (4/F) 306.83 FAU 2007 Available