Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 266132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Buckley Ebrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia Buckley |
| FAMILY NAME | Ebrey |
| SIGNATURE | EBREY P B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 10 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940
Periodizing by Dynasty
Bringing Scholarship on The Early Medieval Period to a Broader Audience
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Eventually, the set included fifteen “volumes,” but sixteen physical books, as volume 5 came out as two books.2 See Arthur Wright, Buddhism in Chinese History (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press) and Erik Zürcher, The Chinese Conquest of Buddhism (Leiden: Brill), both published in 1959.3 Albert E. Dien, “Yen Chih-t’ui (531-591+): A Buddho-Confucian,” i…
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China is an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation – from prehistoric times to the intellectual ferment of the Warring States Period, through the rise and fall of the imperial dynasties, to the modern communist state. Written by a leading scholar and lavishly illustrated, its narrative draws together everything from the influence of key intellectual figures, to political innovations, ar…
The Jiankang Empire in Eurasian and World History, by Andrew Chittick
The history of the period between the Han and Tang dynasties (220–618), long relatively dormant, is showing signs of life. In the autumn of 2019, the volume of the Cambridge History of China on the period was finally published and a few months later the volume under review appeared. Andrew Chittick has two main goals in his book. The first is to get us to re-evaluate the states that ruled from Jiankang (modern Nanking) in the third through to the…
Water Under a Bridge
Reviewed by: "Water Under a Bridge: Further Thoughts on the Qingming Scroll," by Julia Murray Patricia Ebrey Julia Murray, "Water Under a Bridge: Further Thoughts on the Qingming Scroll," JSYS 27 (1997): 99–107. Julia Murray, in this brief nine-page note, demonstrates the benefit of the multi-disciplinary nature of JSYS. She responds as an art historian to two articles by historians which offered contrasting conclusions on the date and subject of…
Three Short Eastern Han Funerary Biographies
Chinese Funerary Biographies
Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased’s biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors’ longing for the dead. These epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children—people who are not well documented in more conventional sources such as dynastic histo…
Chinese Funerary Biographies
Tens of thousands of epitaphs or funerary biographies survive from imperial China. Written to be engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased's biographical information and exemplary words and deeds, expressing survivors' longing for the dead. Epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of people who are not well-documented in such sources as the dynastic histories and local gazetteers: women, men who did not leave a m…
Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China
Eight studies examine key features of Chinese visual and material cultures, ranging from tomb design, metalware, ceramic pillows, and bronze mirrors, to printed illustrations, calligraphic rubbings, colophons, and paintings on Buddhist, landscape, and narrative themes. Questions addressed include how artists and artisans made their works, the ways both popular literature and market forces could shape ways of looking, and how practices and imagery…
State Power in China, 900-1325
This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, State Power in China, 900-1325 examines large questions concerning dynastic legitimacy, factional strife, the relationship between the literati and the state, and the value of centralization. How was state power exercised? Why did factional strife periodically become ferocious? Wh…
Chu Hsi's "Family Rituals"
Family and Property in Sung China
Emperor Huizong
China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. Artistically gifted, he guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness but is known to posterity as a political failure who lost the throne to Jurchen invaders and died their prisoner. In this comprehensive biography, Patricia Ebrey corrects the prevailing view of Huizong as decadent and negligent, recasting him as a ruler ambitious in pursuing glory …
Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China (review)
Reviewed by: Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China Patricia Ebrey Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China by Hui-Shu Lee. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 331. $65.00. Over the course of the Song dynasty the imperial palaces in Kaifeng and Hangzhou were home to tens of thousands of women, a dozen or more of whom gained substantial political power as empresses. In Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynas…
Accumulating Culture
List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface A Note on Dates, Measurements, and Other Conventions Chronology Introduction 1. Early Song Precedents 2. Strains in Emperor-Literati Relations during the Reform Era 3. Collecting As a Scholarly Passion during the Northern Song Period 4. Huizong As a Collector 5. Managing the Collections at the Palace Library 6. Collecting and Cataloguing Antiquities 7. Collecting and Cataloguing Calligraphy 8. Collecti…
Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China
Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China
Women and the Family in Chinese History
This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history and therefore subject to change over time. The essays cover topics ranging from dowries and the sale of women into forced concubinary, to the excesses …
Gender and Sinology
Late Imperial China - Volume 20, Number 2, December 1999
Portrait Sculptures in Imperial Ancestral Rites in Song China
On the fourth day of the eleventh month of 1082, the chief councillors and other high officials gathered in the palace about an hour after dawn. They joined guardsmen and musicians, together with Buddhist and Daoist clergy, for a procession of the portrait statues of the imperial ancestors. The procession began at the Pavilion of Heavenly Emblems (Tianzhang ge itNU), where they had recently been assembled from many different locations, and it end…
The Inner Quarters
Windows on the Chinese world
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Chronologies of Ancient China: A Critique of the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project Chapter 3 2. The Politics of Imperial Collecting in the Northern Song Period Chapter 4 3. Who is Responsible for the Limits of Jesuit Scientific and Technical Transmission from Europe to China in the Eighteenth Century? Chapter 5 4. Marriages, Births, and Deaths in the Lower Yangzi Valley during the Later Eighteenth Century Chapt…
Chinese civilization
Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded material, personal documents, social records, laws, and documents that historians mistakenly ignore, the sixth edition is even more useful than its classic predecessor. A complete and thorough introduction to Chinese history and culture. Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded materi…
East Asia
Designed for the East Asian history course, this text features the latest scholarship on the region and offers a range of cultural, political, economic and intellectual history. Coverage is balanced among East Asian regions, with approximately 20 per cent of the text focused on Korea, an area that has become increasingly important in East Asian courses and in world politics. Special attention is devoted to coverage of gender and material culture …
The Lineage-Village Complex in Southeastern China
Government Education and Examinations in Sung China
Conceptions of the Family in the Sung Dynasty
The values and premises underlying the Chinese family system can be seen as an amalgam of several partially contradictory strains of thought, each with its own history and vocabulary. While ideas tied to the classical tsung model remained at the level of high ideals, seldom even emulated, notions related to the family (chid) and the continuity of the patriline were highly pervasive and would seem to account for much of the uniformity in Chinese f…
T'ang Guides to Verbal Etiquette
The Women in Liu Kezhuang's Family
As any reader will remember well, the Jia family in the Dream of Red Mansions (Honglou meng) was centered around the elderly grandmother. To the youthful Baoyu the family's key members, other than his father, were all females; they included his grandmother, his elder cousin's wife, his elder brother's widow, and his own sisters and cousins-not to mention the senior maids and concubines. The novel informs us of the life histories of most of these …
State and Scholars in T'ang China
The Dynamics of Elite Domination in Sung China
Later Han Stone Inscriptions
Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940
Concubines in Sung China
This article argues that concubines (ch'ieh) in traditional China should not be thought of as wives, even secondary wives. Using Sung dynasty (960-1279) evidence, the ritual, legal, and social differences between wives and concubines are examined. Wives were acquired through a betrothal process that entailed exchange of gifts and ceremonies; concubines were purchased through a market in female labor much as maids were. A wife's relatives became k…
Patron-Client Relations in the Later Han
During the second Century A.D., much of the social and political activity of upper class men was organized on the basis of private ties between superiors and inferiors. These patron-client ties were created every time a man took on a teacher, accepted an appointment as a political subordinate, or received a recommendation for office by an official. Clients were expected to show loyalty to their patrons, mourning for them if they died and supporti…
Estate and Family Management in the Later Han as Seen in the Monthly Instructions for the Four Classes of People
This chapter examines the Monthly Instructions , paying attention especially to the ways it can supplement other works, such as the standard histories, as a source for Later Han social history. Since the growth of the great families after the Later Han is one of the major social transitions of early Chinese History, it is important to examine the stages and processes of its development. The Monthly Instructions for the Four Classes of People has …
The Aristocratic Families in Early Imperial China
Much scholarly work has been published on the Chinese medieval 'aristocracy', in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages. It is commonly accepted that the change from an aristocratic society to a 'meritocracy' was one of the turning points of Chinese history. But since almost every aspect of political, economic and cultural history is involved in questions of the nature of the aristocracy, perhaps the only way to test theories of the means by whi…
The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China
1. Introduction 2. The historical development of the aristocratic families 3. Origins of the Ts'uis in the Han 4. The Ts'uis in the aristocratic age 5. The Ts'uis as an old family in the Tang 6. Implications and conclusions.
The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China
The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China
Land and Lineage in China
The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China
Later Han Stone Inscriptions
The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China. A Case Study of the Po-ling Ts'ui Family
Chinese Civilization and Society
The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China
Patron-Client Relations in the Later Han
During the second Century A.D., much of the social and political activity of upper class men was organized on the basis of private ties between superiors and inferiors. These patron-client ties were created every time a man took on a teacher, accepted an appointment as a political subordinate, or received a recommendation for office by an official. Clients were expected to show loyalty to their patrons, mourning for them if they died and supporti…
Family and Property in Sung China
Chinese Civilization and Society
The Women in Liu Kezhuang's Family
As any reader will remember well, the Jia family in the Dream of Red Mansions (Honglou meng) was centered around the elderly grandmother. To the youthful Baoyu the family's key members, other than his father, were all females; they included his grandmother, his elder cousin's wife, his elder brother's widow, and his own sisters and cousins-not to mention the senior maids and concubines. The novel informs us of the life histories of most of these …
Han Civilization
Conceptions of the Family in the Sung Dynasty
The values and premises underlying the Chinese family system can be seen as an amalgam of several partially contradictory strains of thought, each with its own history and vocabulary. While ideas tied to the classical tsung model remained at the level of high ideals, seldom even emulated, notions related to the family (chid) and the continuity of the patriline were highly pervasive and would seem to account for much of the uniformity in Chinese f…
Family and Property in Sung China
Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class, Yuan Ts'ai's twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical educated man on the concerns of managing a family, from rearing children and arranging their marriages, to avoiding social conflict, training servants, and managing property and preserving it for the next generation. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-o…
T'ang Guides to Verbal Etiquette
The economic and social history of Later Han
This chapter describes and analyzes major structural changes in the economy and society, such as the reorganization of agricultural production, the emergence of new forms of local organization, and the continuing evolution of the composition of the upper class in Han period. In the Later Han period, commerce and industry were not subject to as much political interference as they had been in the first century BC and during Wang Mang's reign. The e…
Government Education and Examinations in Sung China
Concubines in Sung China
This article argues that concubines (ch'ieh) in traditional China should not be thought of as wives, even secondary wives. Using Sung dynasty (960-1279) evidence, the ritual, legal, and social differences between wives and concubines are examined. Wives were acquired through a betrothal process that entailed exchange of gifts and ceremonies; concubines were purchased through a market in female labor much as maids were. A wife's relatives became k…
"Medieval Chinese Society and the Local "Community
Family and Property in Sung China
Family and Property in Sung China. Yuan Ts'ai's Precepts for Social Life
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