The Literati-Official Victimization Narrative
Memorializing Donglin Martyrs in Eighteenth-Century Suzhou
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22340226 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Burton-Rose (0000-0002-7852-1872), Daniel Burton‐Rose (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 106-126 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion and Violence (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-6808 • E-ISSN: 2159-6808 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/jrv201851452 |
| OpenAlex | W2803324170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article describes the Confucian cycle of apotheosis in which deceased sages and worthies served as a model for the living who in turn aspired to become paragons for future generations, thereby achieving a form of immortality. It explores the way in which victimhood was strategically employed to perpetuate power relations beneficial to local landowners through a case study of support over a hundred and fifty year period by a major familial lineage in the Yangzi delta region for one of the most prominent victims of factional violence in the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644): Donglin current member Zhou Shunchang (1584–1626). Influential patriarchs in the Peng familial lineage of Suzhou cultivated indignation in local society about the injustices suffered by righteous literati-officials such as Zhou Shunchang. The driving motivation of the Pengs’ memorialization of Zhou was to decry physical harm of literati-officials by state agents and to perpetuate the Donglin current program of governance centered on the counsel of literati-officials. In continuing Zhou’s memory through textual and ritual interventions, the Pengs put forward a vision of local autonomy while simultaneously aligning their own interests with those of the Manchu Qing (1644-1911) rulers
Ancient history · Apotheosis · Archaeology · Art · Autonomy · Ethos · Harm · Immortality · Literature · Looting · Memorialization · Narrative · Political science · Righteousness · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |