As a conquest dynasty, Qing China's new Manchu leaders desperately needed to legitimize their rule. To win the approval of China's native elites, they developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society. Filial piety, the core Confucian value, would once again be upheld by the state, and laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian society, would be observed by officials throughout the empire. In this way, the emperor would be following the ancient dictate that he 'govern all-under-heaven with filial piety'. Norman Kutcher's study of mourning looks beneath the rhetoric to demonstrate how the state - unwilling to make the sacrifices that a genuine commitment to proper mourning demanded - quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system. With acute sensitivity to language and its changing meanings, Kutcher sheds light on a wide variety of issues that are of interest to historians of late Imperial China.
發表於2024-11-23
Mourning in Late Imperial China 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
圖書標籤: 葬禮 曆史學 柯啓玄 服喪 明清史 孝道
在材料堆裏掙紮過一番,纔知道彆人工作的不容易。
評分Should be read really critically.
評分Should be read really critically.
評分在材料堆裏掙紮過一番,纔知道彆人工作的不容易。
評分Should be read really critically.
Mourning in Late Imperial China 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載