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Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 135

Genealogy and Status

Hereditary Office Holding and Kinship in North China under Mongol Rule

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$60.00 • £52.95 • €54.95

ISBN 9780674291294

Publication Date: 02/07/2023

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388 pages

6 x 9 inches

4 photos, 9 color photos, 3 illus., 2 maps, 8 tables

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  • List of Maps, Tables, and Figures*
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Conversions for Transliterations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Pursuing and Maintaining Political Success under Mongol Rule
  • 2. Genealogical Steles: Evolution and Social and Cultural Background
  • 3. Navigating Yuan Officialdom
  • 4. Kinship Imagined in Genealogical Stele Inscriptions
  • 5. The Reinterpretation of Genealogical Stele Inscriptions after the Demise of Mongol Rule
  • Conclusion: Mongol Rule in North China
  • Appendix 1. The Geographical Definition of North China
  • Appendix 2. Genealogical Steles from the Jin
  • Appendix 3. Genealogical Steles from the Yuan
  • Appendix 4. Topological Analysis of the Jin–Yuan Genealogical Steles
  • Appendix 5. Marriage Cases from Jin Mengzhou
  • Appendix 6. Marriage Cases from Yuan Genealogical Steles
  • Appendix 7. Genealogical Steles from the Ming
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • * Maps, Tables, and Figures
    • Maps
      • I.1. North China and places that appear in the text
      • 1.2. Steles in “Sun Gongliang jiazu fenmu”
    • Tables
      • 1.1. Steles in “Sun Gongliang jiazu fenmu”
      • 2.1. Geographical Distribution of the Yuan Genealogical Steles
      • 2.2. Official Rank of the Jin–Yuan Genealogical Stele Sponsors
      • 2.3. Steles Produced by the Duan Lineage during the Jin and Yuan
    • Figures
      • 0.1. 1299 stele in the Sun family graveyard
      • 0.2. The genealogical chart on the 1299 stele (upper half)
      • 0.3. The genealogical chart on the 1299 stele (lower half)
      • 1.1. The Sun family graveyard
      • 2.1. Front side of “Spirit road stele of Lord Bi, chief judge of the eight brigades”
      • 2.2. Verso of “Spirit road stele of Lord Bi, chief judge of the eight brigades”
      • 2.3. “Duanshi jiazu mudi” in Pinglongcun, Jishan County (as of August 31, 2006)
      • 2.4. Family tree of the Duan lineage reconstructed by the Jin and Yuan inscriptions
      • 4.1. “Stele of the ancestral virtue of the Song lineage in the Dong commandery”
      • 4.2. The Yuan-era family tree of the Song lineage, reconstructed by the epitaph of Song Chonglu
      • 4.3. Yuan-era family tree of the Songs recorded in “Songshi shixi”
      • 4.4. Rubbing of the “Genealogy of the Song lineage (Songshi shixi)”
      • 4.5. “Stele praising the ancestral virtue of the Song lineage in the Dong commandery”
      • 4.6. A letter by Kangli Naonao, engraved on “Stele praising the ancestral virtue of the Song lineage in the Dong commandery”
      • 5.1. A reused genealogical stele at Yong’an Temple
      • 5.2. Steles in the ancestral hall of the Yang family

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