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Faure argues that, in China, ritual provided the social glue which law provided in the West. He traces the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that they fostered the mechanisms which enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state - first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms which made group ownership of property feasible and hence possible to pool capital for land-reclamation projects important to the state.

Kinship --- Ethnicity --- Inheritance and succession --- Bequests --- Descent and distribution --- Descents --- Hereditary succession --- Intestacy --- Intestate succession --- Law of succession --- Succession, Intestate --- Real property --- Universal succession --- Trusts and trustees --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- History. --- Law and legislation --- China --- History --- S06/0204 --- S06/0260 --- S11/0700 --- S12/0216 --- China: Politics and government--Government and political institutions: Ming --- China: Politics and government--The Chinese model --- China: Social sciences--Clan and family: general and before 1949 (incl. names, clan rules) --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Political philosophy

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This book describes China's encounter with capitalism from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It poses poignant questions in simple language, guides the reader through a complex literature and presents a unique point of view.

Capitalism --- Business enterprises --- History. --- China --- Economic conditions --- Business organizations --- Businesses --- Companies --- Enterprises --- Firms --- Organizations, Business --- Business --- S10/0200 --- S10/0220 --- S10/0251 --- S10/1000 --- History --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: general --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: 1840 - 1911 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: since 1989 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Business ethics and philosophy

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Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint, largely ignoring the local histories that were preserved for generations in the form of oral tradition through myths, legends, and religious ritual. Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture. Observing local rituals against the backdrop of extant written records, it focuses on examples from the southwestern Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and southwestern Guangdong provinces. The authors contemplate the crucial question of how one can begin to write the history of a conquered people whose past has been largely wiped out. Combining anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis, they dig deep for the indigenous voice as they build a new history of China's southwestern region � one that recognizes the ethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place in China's nation-building process.

Ethnology --- Minorities --- Ancestor worship --- Government relations. --- Ethnic identity. --- China, Southwest --- History.