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The Kongs of Qufu

The Descendants of Confucius in Late Imperial China

作者:Christopher S. Agnew

出版社:华盛顿大学出版社

出版时间: August 2019

页码:256 Pages

ISBN: 9780295745930

本书简介

The city of Qufu, in north China’s Shandong Province, is famous as the hometown of Kong Qiu (551–479 BCE)—known as Confucius in English and as Kongzi or Kong Fuzi in Chinese. In The Kongs of Qufu, Christopher Agnew chronicles the history of the sage’s direct descendants from the inception of the hereditary title Duke for Fulfilling the Sage in 1055 CE through its dissolution in 1935, after the fall of China’s dynastic system in 1911.

Drawing on archival materials, Agnew reveals how a kinship group used genealogical privilege to shape Chinese social and economic history. The Kongs’ power under a hereditary dukedom enabled them to oversee agricultural labor, dominate rural markets, and profit from commercial enterprises. The Kongs of Qufu demonstrates that the ducal institution and Confucian ritual were both a means to reproduce existing social hierarchies and a potential site of conflict and subversion.

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作者简介

Christopher S. Agnew is associate professor of history at the University of Dayton. In addition to teaching West and the World, he regularly teaches courses on the history of pre-modern and modern East Asia. His research focus is the history of China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, with an emphasis on social and economic change in north China. He is currently serving as the director of the International Studies Program.

作者主要研究方向:孔子的后裔、中国北方的农业经济、东北亚海上贸易、仪式和记忆。近期论著有:

"Bureaucrats, Sectarians, and the Descendants of Confucius," Late Imperial China 31:1 (2010), 1–27.

"Migrants and Mutineers: The Rebellion of Kong Youde and Seventeenth-Century Northeast Asia," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 52:3 (2009), 505-541.

"Memory and Power in Qufu: Inscribing the Past of Confucius’ Descendants," Journal of Family History 34:4 (2009), 327-343.

书评摘录

This is a meticulously documented social history. Professor Agnew shows how the Kongs deployed their considerable social, economic, political and cultural capital to sustain their estates in western Shandong for over 700 years. The book will appeal to anyone in early modern or modern history concerned about the Kong family or the state.

- R. Kent Guy, Department of History, University of Washington

Christopher Agnew delivers a cast of extraordinary characters and a litany of compelling stories in this study of China’s most notable lineage. The Kong family’s millennium-long quest to establish or “invent” a noble ancestry, and to use that construct to exert territorial control is by no means typical of Chinese kinship organizations. Yet Agnew merges that family experience with the institutional history of late-imperial China to provide us with remarkable new insights into the vagaries and processes of both regional and state power.

- James Flath, Department of History, Western University

This groundbreaking study of the Yansheng Dukes brings together the scattered primary and secondary literature on a unique descent group that was a part of the elite stratum of Chinese society over a period encompassing multiple dynasties. Agnew does a good job of placing the vacillating fortunes of the Kongs within a broader backdrop of events occurring on the empire-wide, regional, and local levels.

- Evelyn S. Rawski, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of History, University of Pittsburgh

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