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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 |
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Online Resources
| Location | Call number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| English Book (4/F) | 306.83 FAU 2007 | Available |