Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks write by Richard G. Wang. This book was released on 2022-10-18. Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks, Richard Wang explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural life in Ming China, notably by mediating between local networks and the state through their clerical lineages--empire-wide networks channeling knowledge and resources--and by controlling central temples.
Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks
Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks write by Richard G. Wang. This book was released on 2023-11-20. Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural life in Ming China, notably by mediating between local networks—biological lineages, territorial communities, temples, and festivals—and the state. They did this through their organization in clerical lineages—their own empire-wide networks for channeling knowledge, patronage, and resources—and by controlling central temples that were nodes of local social structures. In this book, the only comprehensive social history of local Daoism during the Ming largely based on literary sources and fieldwork, Richard G. Wang delineates the interface between local organizations (such as lineages and temple networks) and central state institutions. The first part provides the framework for viewing Daoism as a social institution in regard to both its religious lineages and its service to the state in the bureaucratic apparatus to implement state orthodoxy. The second part follows four cases to reveal the connections between clerical lineages and local networks. Wang illustrates how Daoism claimed a universal ideology and civilizing force that mediated between local organizations and central state institutions, which in turn brought meaning and legitimacy to both local society and the state.
Genealogy and Status
Genealogy and Status - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genealogy and Status write by Tomoyasu Iiyama. This book was released on 2023-02-07. Genealogy and Status available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre that flourished in North China under the rule of the Mongol empire, this book explores the ways the conquered Chinese people understood and represented Mongol ruling principles in their own cultural tradition. The evolution of genealogical steles delineates the way Mongols thoroughly recast the local elite stratum in North China who fully accommodated to the principles of Mongol imperial rule and became one of its cornerstones in eastern Eurasia"--
The Painting Master's Shame
The Painting Master's Shame - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Painting Master's Shame write by Amy McNair. This book was released on 2023-07-18. The Painting Master's Shame available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Overturning the long-held assumption that the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings was the work of the Northern Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1126), Amy McNair argues that it was compiled instead under the direction of Liang Shicheng. Liang, a high-ranking eunuch official who sought to raise his social status from that of despised menial to educated elite, had privileged access to the emperor and palace. McNair's study, based on her translation and extensive analysis of the text of the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings, offers a definitive argument for the authorship of this major landmark in Chinese painting criticism and clarifies why and how it was compiled. The Painting Master's Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the catalogue was written. The political struggles over the New Policies, the promotion of the "scholar amateur" ideal in painting criticism and practice, and the rise of eunuch court officials as a powerful class converged to allow those officials the unprecedented opportunity to enhance their prestige through scholarly activities and politics. McNair analyzes the catalogue's central polemical narrative--the humiliation of the high-ranking minister mistakenly called by the lowly title "Painting Master"--as the key to understanding Liang Shicheng's methods and motives.
The Threshold
The Threshold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Threshold write by Zeb Raft. This book was released on 2023-04-04. The Threshold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens when historiography--the way historical events are committed to writing--shapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography when it is truly "life-writing," its subjects fully engaged with the historiographical rhetoric that would record their words and deeds?
