The Politics of Mourning in Early China

Looks at mourning practices during the Han dynasty to reassess whether filial piety was the overriding model for society and governance in early China. The Politics of Mourning in Early China reevaluates the longstanding assumptions about early imperial political culture. According to most explanations, filial piety served as the linchpin of the social and political order, as all political relations were a seamless extension of the relationship between father and son-a relationship that was hier