Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521030182)

To win the approval of China's native elites, Qing China's new Manchu leaders developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society by observing laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian society. The first to do so in any language, 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.

Author: Norman Kutcher
ISBN-10: 0521030188
ISBN-13: 9780521030182
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d