{"product_id":"culture-and-state-in-chinese-history-conventions-accommodations-and-critiques-irvine-studies-in-the-humanities-9780804728676","title":"Culture and State in Chinese History Conventions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining the efforts of scholars of history, literature and the social sciences, the essays collected in this volume explore some of the ways culture interacted with political power in late imperial China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: shifting paradigms of political and social order R. Bin Wong, Theodore Huters and Pauline Yu  Part I. Elite Education and Cultural Conventions: 1. Examinations and orthodoxies: 1070 and 1313 compared Peter K. Bol  2. The formation of 'Dao learning' as imperial ideology during the early Ming dynasty Benjamin A. Elman  3. Canon formation in late imperial China Pauline Yu  4. Salvaging poetry: The 'poetic' in the Quing Stephen Owen  Part II. The Power of Faith: 5. Ajiao  is aJiao  is a? Thoughts on the meaning of a ritual Robert Hymes: 6. At the margin of public authority: the Ming state and Buddhism Timothy Brook  7. Power, gender and pluralism in the cult of the goddess of Taishan Kenneth Pomeranz  Part III. Accommodations and Critiques: 8. Style and suffering in two stories by 'Lanzxian' Katherine Carlitz  9. Ming-Qing women poets and the notions of 'talent' and 'morality' Kang-i Sun Chang 10. The scorpion in the scholar's cap: ritual, memory and desire in Rulin waishi Marston Anderson  11. The shattered mirror: Wu Jianren and the reflection of strange events Theodore Huters  Part IV. Visions of Community and Social Order: 12.  Confucian agendas for material and ideological control in modern China R. Bin Wong  13. Community, society and history in Sun Yat-sen's Sanmin zhuyi David Strand  4. Constructing the civilized community Ann Anagnost  Notes  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405513826647,"sku":"9780804728676","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804728676.jpg?v=1730492473","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/culture-and-state-in-chinese-history-conventions-accommodations-and-critiques-irvine-studies-in-the-humanities-9780804728676","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}