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Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 115 Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos Sarah Schneewind Published by the Harvard University Asia Center Distributed by Harvard University Press Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London 2018 © 2018 by The President and Fellows of Harvard College Printed in the United States of America The Harvard-Yenching Institute, founded in 1928, is an independent foundation dedicated to the advancement of higher education in the humanities and social sciences in Asia. Headquar- tered on the campus of Harvard University, the Institute provides fellowships for advanced research, training, and graduate studies at Harvard by competitively selected faculty and graduate students from Asia. The Institute also supports a range of academic activities at its fifty partner universities and research institutes across Asia. At Harvard, the Institute promotes East Asian studies through annual contributions to the Harvard-Yenching Library and publi- cation of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and the Harvard-Yenching Institute Mono- graph Series. I gratefully acknowledge permission to reproduce material from my article, “Beyond Flattery: Legitimating Political Participation in a Ming Living Shrine,” Journal of Asian Studies 72.2 (May 2013): 345–66. © 2013, published by Cambridge University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Schneewind, Sarah, author. Title: Shrines to living men in the Ming political cosmos / Sarah Schneewind. Other titles: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 115. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. | Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series 115 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017060586 | ISBN 9780674987142 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: China—Politics and government—1368–1644. | China—History—Ming dynasty, 1368–1644. | China—Social Conditions—960–1644. | Shrines—China—History. | Dong lin shu yuan (China) | Dissenters—China—History. | Public opinion—China. | Wei, Zhongxian, 1568–1627. | Gu, Yanwu, 1613–1682. Classification: LCC DS753 .S36 2018 | DDC 951/.026—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn .loc.gov/20170605 Index by Bruce Tindall Printed on acid-free paper Last figure below indicates year of this printing 23 22 21 20 19 18 For Bruce and Leo Contents List of Illustrations and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Chronology xvii Introduction 1 Part I: Foundation and Floor 1 An Ordinary Institution 29 2 Parentalism 64 3 Worship 88 Part II: Pillars and Beams 4 Political Work 119 5 From Flattery to Participation 148 6 Commoners 176 viii Contents Part III: Walls and Roof 7 A Political Investment 207 8 Complications 235 9 The Minor Mandate 271 Conclusion 287 Glossary of Chinese Terms 297 Bibliography 303 Steles and Other Primary Texts Cited by English Title 303 Gazetteers Cited 313 Other Works Cited 319 Index 343 Illustrations and Tables Figures I.1 Tortoises bearing steles at a posthumous shrine 19 1.1 Mr. Bi’s Living Shrine 31 1.2 The Shrine to Local Worthies and the Shrine to Eminent Officials 60 2.1 Li Jing’s Premortem Shrine 79 4.1 Seeing off the departing magistrate 124 5.1 Smashing the prefect’s image 150 8.1 The Revering Merit and Admiring Virtue Premortem Shrine 239 8.2 The Responding to Grace Shrine at West Lake 250 8.3 Happy commoners at the Premortem Shrine of Palace Eunuch Liu Jing 251 9.1 Elevation of an honorary title for magistrate in a gazetteer 285 Tables 1.1 Contributions to Li Wenkui’s Premortem Shrine, 1607–10 40 6.1 Sponsors of the Living Shrine to Taiping Magistrate Zhang Tingbang 181 7.1 Magistrates of Shahe County and their honors 210–15
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