Without the trips I was able to make beyond the Pearl River Delta, I do not think I would have gained the perspective that gives this book its current shape. In Taiwan, I was much helped by Wu Micha and Huang Fusan, and in Shanxi by Zhang Zhengming. As I became more determined that this book had to be written so that I could move on beyond the Pearl River Delta, I became indebted to many people further afield.
Joseph McDermott provided many occasions for discussing my ideas as they were forming. Luo Yixing was a constant source of inspiration when I was focusing on Foshan in the 1980s. thesis, from which I learnt a great deal. Huang Yonghao, aside from helping me convey photocopies back from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, also worked on a valuable set of documents for his M.A. Ed Wickberg provided some important documents from the Library of the University of British Columbia at a vital time. For some years, I read for long stretches at the Guangdong Provincial Library, and I am very grateful to the staff at the “traditional texts” division for their tolerance and patience. Many local people and keepers of local museums opened their doors to me. Ye Xian-en, Tan Dihua, and James Hayes encouraged me in this effort in its early days. However, many more people helped me at all the many stages of work leading to this book. I do not think we were by any means the forerunners of any tradition, but I do believe we blazed a trail, which I hope in years to come will be much traversed. Also to be included is my late friend Anthony Pang, who, though a lawyer by profession, accompanied me on numerous trips to mainland China until he passed away in the early 1990s. They include Liu Zhiwei, Chen Chunsheng, Zheng Zhenman, May-bo Ching, Choi Chi-cheung, Zhao Shiyu, Liang Hongsheng, and Shao Hong, as well as Helen Siu, Kenneth Dean, and John Lagerwey, even though they are not on the faculty of any Chinese university. Among the many whose assistance this note must acknowledge are a small group of people in Hong Kong and China who look upon fieldwork as any historian’s normal preoccupation. This book has taken twenty years to write, and in this long time, I have accumulated more debts to friends and colleagues than I can possibly enumerate here. Huo Tao’s representation of the three-compartment ancestral hall amid village buildings The “family temple” as defined by Ming dynasty statutes Guangzhou and the administrative counties of the Pearl River DeltaĮnclosure within the Mulberry Garden Dike The Nineteenth-Century Transformation 18 The Mulberry Garden DikeĢ1 The Foreign Element in Pearl River Delta SocietyĢ2 Contradictions of the Nation-State: The Backwardness of LineagesĮpilogue 23 Beyond the Pearl River Delta Notes References Glossary Index
Lineages Gentrified 10 Lineage Building: The Huo Surname of Foshanįrom Ming to Qing 12 Gentry Leadership in Local Societyġ4 The Proliferation of Lineage Institutionsġ5 The Ordering of Community in Ritual Life gn635.c5f38 2007 306'.0951-dc22 2006009696 Printed in the United States of America Typeset at Stanford University Press in 10/12.5 SabonĪcknowledgments A Note for the Nonspecialist Reader 1 Introductionįrom Registered Households to Lineages 6 Early Ming Society
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Emperor and ancestor : state and lineage in South China / David Faure. Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2007 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Faure, David. Stanford university press Stanford, California Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South ChinaĮ M P E R O R and ANCESTOR State and Lineage in South China
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