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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Kongs of Qufu
    sub title: the descendants of Confucius in late Imperial China
  name:
    name part: Agnew, Christopher S.
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The city of Qufu in north China's Shandong Province is famous as the hometown of Kong Qiu (551-479 BCE), known in English as Confucius, and in Chinese as Kongzi or Kong Fuzi, and the site of his tomb and temple. Serving the Sage traces the history of the direct descendants of Confucius from the inception of the hereditary title Dukes for Fulfilling the Sage in 1055 through its dissolution in 1935, after the fall of China's dynastic system in 1911. The Kongs' administrative record, the largest such family archive in China, documents the history of northern Chinese agriculture, market formation, rural violence and rent resistance. Serving the Sage draws on this rich material to address key themes in Chinese social history, such as agricultural commercialization, the structure and function of periodic marketing systems and the impact of rural violence on political destabilization and social upheavals. The picture that emerges is that of a kinship group descended from Confucius and ruled by a hereditary duke that mobilized substantial and often coercive forces to manage agricultural labor, dominate rural markets and profit from commercial enterprises. The book also examines how genealogies and ritual texts, through their performance and circulation, reproduced a model of kinship organization that reinforced ducal power. Elites shaped cultural practice and collective memory, while competing with state and popular interests. Confucian ritual was at once a means to reproduce existing social hierarchies and a potential site of conflict and subversion.
  table of contents: Inventing the Dukedom -- Estate expansion and ducal power -- Savage tigers -- The Duke and the Magistrate -- Inscribing the past -- Ritual and power -- The fall of Imperial China and the end of the Dukedom.
  note: Christopher S. Agnew.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Confucius
    topic: Family
  subject:
    geographic: Qufu Shi (China)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Qufu Shi (China)
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Qufu Shi (China)
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Nobility
    geographic: China
    geographic: Qufu Shi
  subject:
    topic: Kinship
    geographic: China
    geographic: Qufu Shi
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 960-1644
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
  classification: DS797.72.Q487 A46 2019
  classification: 951/.14
  identifier: 9780295745923
  identifier: 0295745924
  identifier: 9780295745930
  identifier: 0295745932
  identifier: 2018060330
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190109
    record change date: 20200117104446.0
    record identifier: in00004082001