State and Family in China

State and Family in China
Yue Du
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11 Nov 2021 UK
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9781108838351
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In Imperial China, the idea of filial piety not only shaped family relations but was also the official ideology by which Qing China was governed. In State and Family in China, Yue Du examines the relationship between politics and intergenerational family relations in China from the Qing period to 1949, focusing on changes in family law, parent-child relationships, and the changing nature of the Chinese state during this period. This book highlights how the Qing dynasty treated the state-sponsored parent-child hierarchy as the axis around which Chinese family and political power relations were constructed and maintained. It shows how following the fall of the Qing in 1911, reform of filial piety law in the Republic of China became the basis of state-directed family reform, playing a central role in China' s transition from empire to nation-state.
' Through nuanced analysis of extensive archives and legal practices, this stimulating book sheds completely new light on the ideological and juridical centrality of the family and filial piety to the state and society of late imperial and modern China. It is a highly valuable contribution to multiple fields including Chinese studies and comparative law and history. ' Li Chen, University of Toronto ' The legal cases in State and Family in China frame an elegant and innovative history of the transfigurations of filial piety in the state' s interventions into hierarchical family dynamics from the Qing through the Republican period. As Yue Du shows, even as the Nationalists gave new rights to adult children curtailing the absolute authority of biological parents, they established Sun Yat-sen as the omnipresent Father of China' s modern citizenry. ' Maram Epstein, University of Oregon ' Offering a dynamic and sweeping portrait of China' s filial tradition from the Qing Dynasty to the present day, Yue Du proves that the multifaceted ways in which successive Chinese regimes cultivated, deployed (or denounced) filial obligation remain essential not only to understand Chinese society in the past, but also the PRC' s vision of its future. Calling upon vivid legal records, this book demonstrates how filiality may well be the most significant relationship for interpreting Chinese law, family, and governance. In this book we find a startling and sobering analysis of the exploitation and manipulation of family hierarchies by parents, evolving legal systems, and an invasive state. ' Johanna Ransmeier, University of Chicago
Yue Du is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History at Cornell University.
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ISBN-13: 9781108838351
Published: 11 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 350

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