Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China - Couverture rigide

Faure, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804753180 ISBN 13 : 9780804753180

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state--first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Faure is Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the coeditor of Down to Earth: The Territorial Bond in South China (Stanford University Press, 1995).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804753180
• ISBN 13: 9780804753180
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible