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Pepper Mountain: The Life, Death and Posthumous Career of Yang Jisheng

Pepper Mountain: The Life, Death and Posthumous Career of Yang Jisheng

Hammond, Kenneth J.

Hardcover

Series: Kegan Paul China Library

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0710312806
ISBN13: 9780710312808
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 1 2007
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
First published in 2007. The political history of late imperial/early modern China and the relationship between China's traditional political culture and the rapidly changing political environment of China today, are examined through this study of the iconic figure of Yang Jisheng. Born in 1516, Yang had a brief and traumatic career as a junior official in the middle Ming dynasty, before being executed in 1555 for criticising the politics of the imperial state. After his death, Yang was held up as a martyr to Confucian political morality. Over the ensuing 450 years, a variety of constituencies within China have appropriated and deployed Yang's memory in different ways to promote their own political agendas. In recent years, as China has sought to come to grips with the ideological decline of socialism and the need for a new foundation for public morality, there has been a revival of interest in figures like Yang Jisheng. A series of events including the rebuilding of his ancestral shrine, the rededication of a school he founded, and the republication of his writings, show how his legacy is once again being taken up by actors on the contemporary political scene. This is an important study of the power of political myth in China, past and present.

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