Emperor and ancestor: state and lineage in South China

Contents A note for the non-specialist reader Introduction 1. Introduction Historical geography 2. Exotic Guangzhou 3. Confucian incursions 4. We and they 5. The land From registered households to lineages 6. Early Ming society 7. The recession of military service 8. The standardization of village rituals 9. Administrative transition Lineages gentrified 10. Lineage building: the Huo surname of Foshan 11. Local magnates and land development From Ming to Qing 12. Loyalty in the Ming-Qing transition 13. Power reshuffle in the early Qing 14. Proliferation of lineage institutions 15. The ordering of community in ritual life 16. Incorporation: the power of an idea 17. A short note on prosperity The nineteenth century transformation 18. The Mulberry Garden Dyke and Its Politics 19. From paramilitary to militia 20. Local power in the Taiping Rebellion 21. The foreign element in Pearl River delta society 22. Contradictions of the nation state: the backwardness of lineages Epilogue 23. Beyond the Pearl River delta Bibliography Glossary