Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China : : Family, State, and Native Place / / Cong Ellen Zhang.

Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960-1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of time, preventing them from fulfilling their most sacred dom...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Conventions
  • Northern Song Emperors and Their Reign Titles
  • Map of Northern Song China
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Triumph of a New Filial Ideal: Supporting Parents with Official Emoluments
  • Chapter 2. Mourning and Filial Piety: Policies and Practices
  • Chapter 3. When and Where? Burial and Filial Piety
  • Chapter 4. Remembering and Commemorating: Epitaph Writing as a Form of Filial Expression
  • Epilogue Filial Piety and the Elite: Family, State, and Native Place in the Northern Song
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary-Index