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Emperor and ancestor [electronic resource] : state and lineage in South China / David Faure

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Faure, David
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State and lineage in South China
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xii, 464 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Contents
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.
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ISBN
0804753180
9780804753180
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-445) and index.
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