Performing filial piety in Northern Song China : family, state, and native place /

"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 sacr...

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Main Author: Zhang, Cong, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2020]
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The Triumph of a New Filial Ideal: Supporting Parents with Official Emoluments
  • Mourning and Filial Piety: Policies and Practices
  • When and Where?: Burial and Filial Piety
  • Remembering and Commemorating: Epitaph Writing as a Form of Filial Expression