THE RISE OF CONFUCIAN RITUALISM IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA. Ethics, Calssics, and Lineage Discourse.

Chow, Kai-wing.

ISBN 10: 0804721734 / ISBN 13: 9780804721738

Published by Stanford University, Stanford CA 1994., 1994

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1st edition. 8vo. Prelims. + 344pp. Small inkstamp to title page. Ownership inscription to front f.e.p. Original boards. Pictorial blue d/w. with black lettering to spine, slightly rubbed to edges. ISBN 0804721734 US$15.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE RISE OF CONFUCIAN RITUALISM IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA. Ethics, Calssics, and Lineage Discourse.
• Publisher: Stanford University, Stanford CA 1994.
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804721734
• ISBN 13: 9780804721738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

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

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.