The rise of Confucian ritualism in late imperial China : ethics, classics, and lineage discourse
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The rise of Confucian ritualism in late imperial China : ethics, classics, and lineage discourse
Stanford University Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-314) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780804721738
Description
This pathbreaking work argues that the major intellectual trend in China from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century was Confucian ritualism, as expressed in ethics, classical learning, and discourse on lineage.
Reviews
"Chow has produced a work of superb scholarship, fluently written and beautifully researched. . . . One of the landmarks of the current reconstruction of the social philosophy of the Qing dynasty. . . . Chow's book is indispensable. It has illuminating analyses of many mainstream writers, institutions, and social categories in eighteenth-century China which have never previously been examined."
-Canadian Journal of History
"Chow's monograph moves ritual to center stage in late imperial social and intellectual history, and the author makes a powerful case for doing so. . . . Because the author understands the intellectual history of late Ming and Qing as the history of a movement, or successive movements, of fundamental social reform, he has also made an important contribution to social and political history as these were related to intellectual history."
-Journal of Chinese Religion
"Chow's book is an excellent contribution to recent scholarship on the intellectual history of the Confucian tradition and provides a balance for other studies that have emphasized ideas to the exclusion of symbols."
-The Historian
Table of Contents
Reign periods of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties Introduction 1. The crisis of the confucian order and didactic responses 2. Ritualist ethics and textual purism in the K'ang-hsi reign 3. Lineage discourse: gentry, local society, and the state 4. Ancestral rites and lineage in early Ch'ing scholarship 5. Ritual and the classics in the early Ch'ing 6. Linguistic purism and the hermeneutics of the Han learning movement 7. Ritualist ethics and the Han learning movement 8. Ritualism and gentry culture: women and lineage Conclusion Reference matter Notes Bibliography Character list Index.
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: pbk ISBN 9780804727914
Description
This pathbreaking work argues that the major intellectual trend in China from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth century was Confucian ritualism, as expressed in ethics and classical learning.Through the performance of rites, the early Qing scholars believed they could cultivate Confucian virtues and achieve social order. The author shows how Confucian ritualism, with its emphasis on lineage, became a broad movement of social reform that stressed conformity and clearly prescribed rules of behavior, expressed notably in the growing cult of female chastity.
Table of Contents
- Reign periods of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties
- Introduction
- 1. The crisis of the confucian order and didactic responses
- 2. Ritualist ethics and textual purism in the K'ang-hsi reign
- 3. Lineage discourse: gentry, local society, and the state
- 4. Ancestral rites and lineage in early Ch'ing scholarship
- 5. Ritual a nd the classics in the early Ch'ing
- 6. Linguistic purism and the hermeneutics of the Han learning movement
- 7. Ritualist ethics and the Han learning movement
- 8. Ritualism and gentry culture: women and lineage
- Conclusion
- Reference matter
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Character list
- Index.
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