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Mourning In Late Imperial China
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Author : Norman Alan Kutcher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Mourning In Late Imperial China written by Norman Alan Kutcher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with China categories.
Kutcher's study of mourning demonstrates how Qing China's Manchu leaders quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system.
Mourning In Late Imperial China
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Author : Norman Kutcher
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-08-13
Mourning In Late Imperial China written by Norman Kutcher and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-13 with History categories.
Kutcher's study of mourning demonstrates how Qing China's Manchu leaders quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system.
Death Ritual In Late Imperial And Modern China
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Author : James L. Watson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988
Death Ritual In Late Imperial And Modern China written by James L. Watson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Social Science categories.
During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.
Intimate Memory
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Author : Martin W. Huang
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2018-04-01
Intimate Memory written by Martin W. Huang and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-01 with History categories.
Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks. In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memoirs, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands, brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their representations of women are much more complex and diverse than the representations we find in more public genres such as Confucian female exemplar biographies.
True To Her Word
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Author : Weijing Lu
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-06
True To Her Word written by Weijing Lu and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-06 with History categories.
This path-breaking book examines the broad cultural, social, and gender meanings of the "faithful maiden" cult in late imperial China (1368–1911). Across the empire, an increasing number of young women or "faithful maidens," defied their parents' wishes and chose either to live out their lives as widows upon the death of a fiancé or killed themselves to join their fiancé in death. The book analyzes the familial conflicts, government policies, ideological controversies, and personal emotions surrounding the cult. Concentrating on the dramatic acts of spirit wedding and suicide, the faithful maidens' unique code of conduct, and the extraordinary life journey of "virgin mothers," Lu documents the ideological, psychological, cultural, and economic aspects of these young women's mentality and behavior, and the implications of this behavior for their families and the broader society. The book's narrative of the faithful maiden cult interweaves late imperial political, cultural, social and intellectual history, thus, providing a new window onto the history of the late imperial period.
Murder And Adultery In Late Imperial China
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Author : Meijer
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-13
Murder And Adultery In Late Imperial China written by Meijer and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-13 with History categories.
In this publication the development is traced of two sections of the chapter on "Homicide" of the penal code of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Murder and Homicide of an Adulterer. The former deals with premeditated homicide where there is no difference in status, social or family relations between murderer and victim, while in the latter we find the husband who kills his wife and her paramour when caught in the act. In that case, the husband was immune from prosecution, provided that he commited the act at the time and at the site. The first section developed in a clear and intelligent way, with in general some logical provisions being added from the beginning till the end of the dynasty. The second section, however, was enriched by 34 additional articles through legislation and judicial practice, which with a view to promoting moral purity in society, gradually circumvented the original restrictions to the husband's fury. Consequently, by accentuating the husband's important status and for the sake of maintaining the established hierarchy in society, that section changed into a bad and cruel part of the law, turning the husband's behaviour from an excusable exception into morally justified conduct, and likewise the woman's misbehaviour into a mortal sin. This has all been confirmed by the motivation of the legislation and sentences of the cases.
Death Rituals And Politics In Northern Song China
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Author : Mihwa Choi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Death Rituals And Politics In Northern Song China written by Mihwa Choi and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
The adaptation of ancestral ritual to serve the royal imaginary -- How does heaven come to speak?: the contesting discourse and the revival of Confucian death rituals -- Ordering society through Confucian rituals -- Offering for saving of the souls -- Social imaginaries and politics in the narratives on the world-beyond and the supernatural -- Burial: a contested site for social imaginaries
Eunuch And Emperor In The Great Age Of Qing Rule
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Author : Norman A. Kutcher
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-07-31
Eunuch And Emperor In The Great Age Of Qing Rule written by Norman A. Kutcher and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with History categories.
Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule offers a new interpretation of eunuchs and their connection to imperial rule in the first century and a half of the Qing dynasty (1644–1800). This period encompassed the reigns of three of China’s most important emperors, men who were deeply affected by the great eunuch corruption of the fallen Ming dynasty. In this groundbreaking and deeply researched book, the author explores how Qing emperors sought to prevent a return of the harmful excesses of eunuchs and how eunuchs flourished in the face of the restrictions imposed upon them. We meet powerful eunuchs who faithfully served, and in some cases ultimately betrayed, their emperors. We also meet ordinary eunuchs whose lives, punctuated by dramas large and small, provide a fascinating perspective on the Qing palace world.
Women And National Trauma In Late Imperial Chinese Literature
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Author : Wai-yee Li
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Women And National Trauma In Late Imperial Chinese Literature written by Wai-yee Li and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with History categories.
The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by men writing in a feminine voice or assuming a female identity, as well as writings that turn women into a signifier through which authors convey their lamentation, nostalgia, or moral questions for the fallen Ming, the book delves into the mentality of those who remembered or reflected on the dynastic transition, as well as those who reinvented its significance in later periods. It shows how history and literature intersect, how conceptions of gender mediate the experience and expression of political disorder. Why and how are variations on themes related to gender boundaries, female virtues, vices, agency, and ethical dilemmas used to allegorize national destiny? In pursuing answers to these questions, Wai-yee Li explores how this multivalent presence of women in different genres provides a window into the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming–Qing transition and of subsequent moments of national trauma. 2016 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Sex Law And Society In Late Imperial China
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Author : Matthew Harvey Sommer
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2000
Sex Law And Society In Late Imperial China written by Matthew Harvey Sommer and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status.