图书标签: 历史 海外中国研究 环境史 明清史 宗教 英文原版 经济史 旱灾
发表于2024-11-25
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Chinese officials put considerable effort into managing the fiscal and legal affairs of their jurisdictions, but they also devoted significant time and energy to performing religious rituals on behalf of the state. This groundbreaking study explores this underappreciated aspect of Chinese political life by investigating rainmaking activities organized or conducted by local officials in the Qing dynasty. Using a wide variety of primary sources, this study explains how and why state rainmaking became a prominent feature of the late imperial religious landscape. It also vividly describes the esoteric, spectacular, and occasionally grotesque techniques officials used to pray for rain. Charting the ways in which rainmaking performances were contested by local communities, this study argues that state rainmaking provided an important venue where the relationship between officials and their constituents was established and maintained. For this reason, the author concludes that official rainmaking was instrumental in constituting state power at the local level. This monograph addresses issues that are central to the study of late imperial Chinese society and culture, including the religious activities of Chinese officials, the nature of state orthodoxy, and the symbolic dimensions of local governance.
Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke is Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at The College of Idaho
旱魅;the author contends that rainmaking served as one of the key areans through which the Qing state was culturally constituted at the local level. 注意作者谈到的历史上官府求雨活动的不连贯性。
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评分旱魅;the author contends that rainmaking served as one of the key areans through which the Qing state was culturally constituted at the local level. 注意作者谈到的历史上官府求雨活动的不连贯性。
评分旱魅;the author contends that rainmaking served as one of the key areans through which the Qing state was culturally constituted at the local level. 注意作者谈到的历史上官府求雨活动的不连贯性。
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Dry Spells pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024