HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE MONOGRAPH SERIES
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 115
Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos
- List of Illustrations and Tables*
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Introduction
- I. Foundation and Floor
- 1. An Ordinary Institution
- 2. Parentalism
- 3. Worship
- II. Pillars and Beams
- 4. Political Work
- 5. From Flattery to Participation
- 6. Commoners
- III. Walls and Roof
- 7. A Political Investment
- 8. Complications
- 9. The Minor Mandate
- Conclusion
- Glossary of Chinese Terms
- Bibliography
- Steles and Other Primary Texts Cited by English Title
- Gazetteers Cited
- Other Works Cited
- Index
- * Illustrations and Tables
- Figures
- I.1. Tortoises bearing steles at a posthumous shrine
- 1.1. Mr. Bi’s Living Shrine
- 1.2. The Shrine to Local Worthies and the Shrine to Eminent Officials
- 2.1. Li Jing’s Premortem Shrine
- 4.1. Seeing off the departing magistrate
- 5.1. Smashing the prefect’s image
- 8.1. The Revering Merit and Admiring Virtue Premortem Shrine
- 8.2. The Responding to Grace Shrine at West Lake
- 8.3. Happy commoners at the Premortem Shrine of Palace Eunuch Liu Jing
- 9.1. Elevation of an honorary title for magistrate in a gazetteer
- Tables
- 1.1. Contributions to Li Wenkui’s Premortem Shrine, 1607–10
- 6.1. Sponsors of the Living Shrine to Taiping Magistrate Zhang Tingbang
- 7.1. Magistrates of Shahe County and their honors
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