The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse - Hardcover

Chow, Kai-wing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804721734 ISBN 13: 9780804721738

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This pathbreaking work argues that the major intellectual trend in China from the 17th through the early 19th century was Confucian ritualism, as expressed in ethics, classical learning, and discourse on lineage.

About this title

About the Author

Kai-wing Chow is Assistant Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

From the Back Cover

"Wide-ranging, exhaustively documented, bold in its interpretations, and attuned simultaneously to questions of intellectual and social history--a rarity in sinological studies--this work will cause a sweeping reassessment of the eighteenth century in modern China's 'Confucian' past. The author's exciting new interpretation of textual scholarship and classical studies both challenges existing theories in modern Chinese intellectual history and adds rich support for new studies of social change at the local level in late imperial times."--Susan Mann, University of California, Davis
"Excellent. . . . Much of Chow's book is devoted to delineating the relationship between scholarly debates on ritual and concrete efforts at lineage building. In this endeavor he pulls together several major strands of recent scholarship on the Ch'ing: work on intellectual trends, elite patterns of dominance, lineage development, ritual, and popular culture."--Journal of Asian Studies

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804721734
• ISBN 13: 9780804721738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356