1st Edition
Lineage and Community in China, 1100–1500 Genealogical Innovation in Jiangxi
By Xi He
Copyright 2020
240 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Tracing descent from common ancestors was extremely important in imperial China. Members of such lineage communities sacrificed to ancestors in periodic ceremonies, maintained written genealogies to demonstrate their descent, and held some properties in common. This book, based on extensive original research, provides evidence that the practice originated much earlier than previously understood.... Read more
1. Introduction Part 1. Jiangxi 2. Turning local, turning literary 3. Economic boom and its limitations Part 2. Tracing lineages 4. Naming versus co-residence 5. Writing down the genealogy 6. The lineage made real Part 3. Imagining communities 7. Impetus from religion 8. Loyalty in the Song-Yuan Transition 9. Taxation and land ownership from the Song to the Ming 10. The lineage as ideology in the Ming 11. Conclusion: The elite and the rest
Biography
Xi He is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
