{"product_id":"genealogy-and-status-tomoyasu-iiyama-9780674291294","title":"Genealogy and Status: Hereditary Office Holding and Kinship in North China Under Mongol Rule","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre that flourished in North China during the Mongol Empire, or Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), \u003ci\u003eGenealogy and Status\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways the conquered Chinese people understood and represented the alien Mongol ruling principles through their own cultural tradition. This epigraphic genre, which this book collectively calls \"genealogical steles,\" was quite unique in the history of Chinese epigraphy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNorthern Chinese officials commissioned these steles exclusively to record a family's extensive genealogy, rather than the biography or achievements of an individual. Tomoyasu Iiyama shows how the rise of these steles demonstrates that Mongol rule fundamentally affected how northern Chinese families defined, organized, and commemorated their kinship. Because most of these inscriptions are in Classical Chinese, they appear to be part of Chinese tradition. In fact, they reflect a massive social change in Chinese society that occurred because of Mongol rule in China. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe evolution of genealogical steles delineates how local elites, while thinking of themselves as the heirs of traditional Chinese culture, fully accommodated to Mongol imperial rule and became instead one of its cornerstones in eastern Eurasia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tomoyasu Iiyama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674291298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674291294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.18d","brand":"Tomoyasu Iiyama","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44077894795519,"sku":"9780674291294","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_42f05bf7-d39a-4d93-b7c0-126802b48890.jpg?v=1685472364","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/genealogy-and-status-tomoyasu-iiyama-9780674291294","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}