Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition
by David Faure
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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.
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- Title Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China
- Author David Faure
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford California
- Date 2007-03-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780804753180 / 0804753180
- Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.35 x 1.25 in (23.55 x 16.13 x 3.18 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006009696
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.095
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2007, Page 79
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