Selfless Offspring: Filial Children and Social Order in Medieval China 9780824874551

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Extended Families and the Triumph of Confucianism
2. The Narratives: Origins and Uses
3. Accounts of Filial Offspring: Models for Emulation
4. Filial Miracles and the Survival of Correlative Confucianism
5. Reverent Caring
6. “Exceeding the Rites”: Mourning and Burial Motifs
7. Filial Daughters or Surrogate Sons?
Conclusion
Appendix: Variants of the Ding Lan Tale
Notes
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index
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