In the Wake of the Mongols
内容简介
The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population and dismantling the existing social order. In the Wake of the Mongols recounts the riveting story of how northern Chinese men and women adapted to these trying circumstances and interacted with their alien Mongol conquerors to create a drastically new social order. To construct this story, the book uses a previously unknown source of inscriptions recorded on stone tablets.
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作者简介
Jinping Wang explores a north China where Mongol patrons, Daoist priests, Buddhist monks, and sometimes single women—rather than Confucian gentry—exercised power and shaped events, a portrait that upends the conventional view of imperial Chinese society. Setting the stage by portraying the late Jin and closing by tracing the Mongol period’s legacy during the Ming dynasty, she delineates the changing social dynamics over four centuries in the northern province of Shanxi, still a poorly understood region.
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目录
List of Maps, Figures, Plates, and Tables*
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Abbreviations
A Note to the Reader
Introduction
1. Yuan Haowen and the Degree-Holder Society in the Jin Dynasty
2. The Quanzhen Daoist Order and Postwar Social Reconstruction, 1234–1281
3. The Buddhist Order, Political Clout, and Kinship Relations
4. Clergy, Irrigation Associations, and the Rural Socioeconomic Order
5. Continuity and Change in Local Dominance in the Ming Dynasty
Conclusion
Appendix 1: List of Unpublished Stele Inscriptions Used in This Book
Appendix 2: Translation of Inscriptions on the 1300 Liang Stele and the 1310 Miaoyan Stele
Bibliography
Index
* Maps, Figures, Plates, and Tables
Maps
1. The Mongol-Yuan Empire superimposed on the territory of modern China
2. Places in Shanxi province mentioned in this book
3. Places Yuan Haowen visited in 1190–1234
4. Distribution of imperial and commandery principalities in Shanxi
Figures
1.1. A statue of Yuan Haowen
2.1. Daoist caves in Dragon Mountain
2.2. The cave dedicated to Song Defang
2.3. Song Defang’s sarcophagus in the Palace of Eternal Joy
2.4. Four tales of filial piety on Song Defang’s sarcophagus
3.1. Family tree of Monk Zhang Zhiyu
4.1. An image of a sluice gate from Wang Zhen’s fourteenth-century Treatise on Agronomy
4.2. A water-powered mill shown in Wang Zhen’s Treatise on Agronomy
4.3. The Huo Spring irrigation system in the early twentieth century
5.1. The high walls of the Expanded-Merit Monastery at Liuhui village
Plates
1. Lay Buddhist women chanting texts in a morning ritual at Cuizhuang village
2. The tombs of the Yuan family
3. The grotto of Lü Dongbin at Nine-Peak Mountain
4. The site of the Upper Palace of Purified Yang at Nine-Peak Mountain
5. A stele dated 1262 at the Palace of Eternal Joy
6. The Pavilion of Water Distribution at the Huo Spring
7. The main hall of the King of Brilliant Response at the Water God Temple
8. Mural of a theatrical scene in the Hall of the King of Brilliant Response
Tables
1. Numbers of newly established Buddhist monasteries and Daoist abbeys in Pingyang prefecture, based on the 1736 edition of the Pingyang fuzhi
2. Numbers of newly established Buddhist monasteries and Daoist abbeys in Taiyuan prefecture, based on the 1783 edition of the Taiyuan fuzhi
3. The thirty-two Buddhist and Daoist establishments in Taiyuan prefecture sponsored by the Jin principality and its affiliated commandery principalities
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