基本説明
This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social clue that law provided in the West.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents A note for the non-specialist reader Introduction 1. Introduction Historical geography 2. Exotic Guangzhou 3. Confucian incursions 4. We and they 5. The land From registered households to lineages 6. Early Ming society 7. The recession of military service 8. The standardization of village rituals 9. Administrative transition Lineages gentrified 10. Lineage building: the Huo surname of Foshan 11. Local magnates and land development From Ming to Qing 12. Loyalty in the Ming-Qing transition 13. Power reshuffle in the early Qing 14. Proliferation of lineage institutions 15. The ordering of community in ritual life 16. Incorporation: the power of an idea 17. A short note on prosperity The nineteenth century transformation 18. The Mulberry Garden Dyke and Its Politics 19. From paramilitary to militia 20. Local power in the Taiping Rebellion 21. The foreign element in Pearl River delta society 22. Contradictions of the nation state: the backwardness of lineages Epilogue 23. Beyond the Pearl River delta Bibliography Glossary
