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Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State

Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institu

AnthropologyChinese HistoryDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 0521624398
ISBN13: 9780521624398
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 13 1999
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
To win the approval of China's native elites, Qing China's new Manchu leaders developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society by observing laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian society. The first to do so in any language, 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.

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