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Emperor and ancestor : state and lineage in South China
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- Creator
- David Faure
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- xii, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780804753180, 9780804767934, 9781435608832, 1435608836, 0804753180, 0804767939
- OCLC
- on1294423234, ocm65201344, ocn290565472
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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