Family, Countryside, and Court: Scholars and Filial Piety in the Northern Song Dynasty [Chinese]

By Zhang Cong

Due to the needs of study tours, imperial examinations, and officials, scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty were away from their families and villages for a long time, so they were unable to fulfill their sacred family duties: to be filial to their parents. The author places at the heart of social and cultural life the tension between the pursuit of worldly ambitions and the fulfillment of family responsibilities by the Northern Song literati group. This book finds that the above-mentioned difficulties faced by scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty neither reduced their filial piety nor hindered them from applying for election and serving the public.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 7573204450
• ISBN13: 9787573204455
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Shang Hai Gu Ji Chu Ban She