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Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
Norman Kutcher
Paperback. Cambridge University Pre 2006-11-02.
ISBN 9780521030182
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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
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