Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China by David Faure
Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China

David Faure

Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China

David Faure

480 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage in...

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