The rise of Confucian ritualism in late imperial China: ethics, classics, and lineage discourse

Abstract

Reign periods of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties Introduction 1. The crisis of the confucian order and didactic responses 2. Ritualist ethics and textual purism in the K'ang-hsi reign 3. Lineage discourse: gentry, local society, and the state 4. Ancestral rites and lineage in early Ch'ing scholarship 5. Ritual a nd the classics in the early Ch'ing 6. Linguistic purism and the hermeneutics of the Han learning movement 7. Ritualist ethics and the Han learning movement 8. Ritualism and gentry culture: women and lineage Conclusion Reference matter Notes Bibliography Character list Index.