Heinz-Murray 2E.book

Plate 14 Engraving of Angkor Wat from Exploration de l’Indo-Chine, by Louis Delaporte, Cambodia. The French launched an expediti ...

Plates 15 and 16 Two Views of Cambodian Temples: Ta Prohm Temple [top] and Angkor Wat Complex [bottom]. The jungles have torn ap ...

Plate 17 The Emerald Buddha, Wat Phra Kaew, Bangkok. A properly Buddhist royal city must copy elements of the Buddhist hear tlan ...

Plate 18 Rumah Uluyong, a traditional Iban longhouse, Kapit, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia. Many Iban continue to live in longhouses ...

Plate 20 Map of British Empire, 1886. At the peak of empire, this map por trays Britain’s various colonies in pink and the empir ...

Chapter 7 China 277 if divided at all. (3) Fathers have legal authority over women and children, including the right to arrange ...

278 Part IV: East Asian Civilization Ancestor Worship Ancestor worship was not left to custom by the shenshi. Detailed manuals p ...

Chapter 7 China 279 each new and full moon, visits are made. On the customary festivals, sea- sonal foods are offered, and when ...

280 Part IV: East Asian Civilization great-grandmother’s tablets were taken out to the gravesite and burned or deposited in the ...

Chapter 7 China 281 the history of several important lineages and uncovered the territorial bases of their wealth and power. By ...

282 Part IV: East Asian Civilization groups. The wealth in land was held in a lineage trust, the Liugeng tang. By the Republican ...

Chapter 7 China 283 the Ming dynasty the thirteenth generation had been reached, still keeping alive their sense of common desce ...

284 Part IV: East Asian Civilization successful marshaling of economic resources, especially control of land, which enabled corp ...

Chapter 7 China 285 cratic control by the Chinese Communist Party replaced traditional private entrepreneurial and kinship struc ...

Box 7.4 Confucianism in a Tumultuous Era Confucius (Kong Fuzi, 551–479 B.C.E.) did not have a good twentieth century. The final ...

Box 7.5 Qingming Festival The Qingming Festival (literally “pure brightness”) is a centuries-old tradition of rit- ual mourning ...

288 Part IV: East Asian Civilization The other change, however, was the most repressive intervention in private reproductive liv ...

Chapter 7 China 289 nomic realities; gender is as susceptible to reconstruction as other domains of culture. The nature of the i ...

290 Part IV: East Asian Civilization lic, extolled female self-sacrifice in widespread morality tales, encouraged ultrafeminizat ...

Chapter 7 China 291 word. For the girl, it signified the tiny points of her three-inch “lotus blossom” feet as they would look w ...