A Note on This Series

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. A Note on This Series v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contents ix
5. CONTRIBUTORS xi
6. Introduction: Shifting Paradigms of Political and Social Order 1
7. Part I ELITE EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CONVENTIONS
8. CHAPTER 1 Examinations and Orthodoxies: 1070 and 1313 Compared 29
9. CHAPTER 2 The Formation of "Dao Learning" as Imperial Ideology During the Early Ming Dynasty 58
10. CHAPTER 3 Canon Formation in Late Imperial China 83
11. CHAPTER 4 Salvaging Poetry: The "Poetic" in the Qing 105
12. Part II THE POWER OF FAITH
13. CHAPTER 5 A Jiao Is a Jiao Is a ? Thoughts on the Meaning of a Ritual 129
14. CHAPTER 6 At the Margin of Public Authority: The Ming State and Buddhism 161
15. CHAPTER 7 Power, Gender, and Pluralism in the Cult of the Goddess of Taishan 182
16. Part III ACCOMMODATIONS AND CRITIQUES
17. CHAPTER 8 Style and Suffering in Two Stories by "Langxian" 207
18. CHAPTER 9 Ming-Qing Women Poets and the Notions of "Talent" and "Morality" 236
19. CHAPTER 10 The Scorpion in the Scholar's Cap: Ritual, Memory, and Desire in Rulin waishi 259
20. CHAPTER 11 The Shattered Mirror: Wu Jianren and the Reflection of Strange Events 277
21. Part IV VISIONS OF COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL ORDER
22. CHAPTER 12 Confucian Agendas for Material and Ideological Control in Modern China 303
23. CHAPTER 13 Community, Society, and History in Sun Yat-sen's Sanmin zhuyi 326
24. CHAPTER 14 Constructing the Civilized Community 346
25. Notes 369
26. Works Cited 441
27. Character List 475
28. Index 487