Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A note on conventions
- Reigns of Ming and Qing emperors
- Introduction
- 1 Death and the state in imperial China: continuities
- 2 The reorientation of Ming attitudes toward mourning
- 3 The early Qing transformation of mourning practice
- 4 The bureaucratization of the Confucian li
- 5 The death of Xiaoxian and the crisis of Qianlong rule
- 6 Death and Chinese society
- Select bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A note on conventions
- Reigns of Ming and Qing emperors
- Introduction
- 1 Death and the state in imperial China: continuities
- 2 The reorientation of Ming attitudes toward mourning
- 3 The early Qing transformation of mourning practice
- 4 The bureaucratization of the Confucian li
- 5 The death of Xiaoxian and the crisis of Qianlong rule
- 6 Death and Chinese society
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Mourning in Late Imperial ChinaFilial Piety and the State, pp. ix - xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999