Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China: Family, State, and Native Place
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Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960-1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of time, preventing them from fulfilling their most sacred domestic duty: filial piety to their parents. In this deeply grounded work, Cong Ellen Zhang locates the tension between worldly ambition and family duty...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824889770
ISBN13:9780824889777
Release Date:June 2021
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:238 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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