Overview
To win the approval of China's native elites, Qing China's new Manchu leaders developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society by observing laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian society. The first to do so in any language, Norman Kutcher's study of mourning looks beneath the rhetoric to demonstrate how the state--unwilling to make the sacrifices that a genuine commitment to proper mourning demanded--quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system.
- | Author: Norman Kutcher
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 02, 2006
- | Number of Pages: 228 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521030188
- | ISBN-13: 9780521030182
