Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China: Family, State, and Native Place

by Cong Ellen Zhang

Book Overview

Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960-1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of time, preventing them from fulfilling their most sacred domestic duty: filial piety to their parents. In this deeply grounded work, Cong Ellen Zhang locates the tension between worldly ambition and family duty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824889770
• ISBN13: 9780824889777
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"