Confucian rituals and Chinese villagers: ritual change and social transformation in a southeastern Chinese community, 1368-1949

Abstract

Part One: Introduction Chapter 1: Confucian Rituals in Late Imperial Chinese State and Society Commoners, Confucian Rituals, and Neo-Confucianism The Appropriation of Confucian Rituals A Social History of Rituals in Sibao Principal Themes Sources Chapter 2: History at the Periphery: Tingzhou and Sibao Tingzhou: Banditry, Ethnicity, and the State Sibao: Making a Center out of a Periphery Part Two: Lisheng as Cultural Mediations Chapter 3: Who Are Lisheng? Lisheng: An Overview Lisheng and Sibao Society Chapter 4: Lisheng and Their Rituals Lisheng and Sibao Rituals Manuals of Sacrificial Texts Part Three: Lineage, Ritual, and Corporate Estates Chapter 5: The Creation of a Lineage Society Lineage Building Ancestors, Genealogy, and Lineage Building Chapter 6: Rites, Land, and Lineages Ancestral Rites Land, Lineage, and Local Elite The Limits of Lineage Building Part Four: A Strange Community Compact? Chapter 7: Community Compacts, Village Rituals, and Local Society Community Compacts in Late Imperial Sibao Villages and Descent Groups around Shangbao The Making of a Community Compact Shangbao Compact and Local Society Part Five: The Worship of Gods Chapter 8: Gods, Ancestors and Demons Zougong: A God Becoming an Ancestor The Transformation of She and Li Chapter 9: Temples, Markets, and Village Identity Temple Building and Village Identity Temples and Commerce Chapter 10: Locating Rituals in Time and Space The Genealogy of a Grand Narrative Cultural Hybridization as a Historical Process Appendices 1. Jinshi (Metropolitan Graduates) in Late Imperial Tingzhou 2. Lisheng and the Rituals Performed by Them in Tingzhou 3. Fifty Sibao Jiwenben (I): Basic Facts 4. Fifty Sibao Jiwenben (II): Breakdown of Contents 5. Five Prohibitions of the Shangbao Compact 6. Villages and Surnames in Sibao 7. Temples and Gods in the Sibao Basin 8. Gods and Texts Dedicated to Them in Three Sibao Jiwenben Bibliography Index