Author: Chow, Kai-wing
Title: The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1994). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x, 344 pp, A label and a small tear to dustwrapper.. Some page-edge soil. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Crisis of the Confucian Order & Didactic Responses; Ritualist Ethics & Textual Purism in the K'ang-hsi Reign; Lineage Discourse: Gentry, Local Society, & the State; Ancestral Rites & Lineage in Early Ch'ing Scholarship; Ritual & Classics in the Early Ch'ing; Linguistic Purism & the Hermeneutics of the Han Learning Movement; Ritualist Ethics & the Han Learning Movement; Ritualism & the Gentry Culture: Women & Lineage; Conclusion.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Late Imperial China, Confucianism Ethics, Confucian Ritualist, Intellectual Ch'ing, Social History, Lineage Ancestor, Gentry East Asia, Ritualism Ritual