http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/920670248

Powerful relations and relations of power family and society in Sung China 960-1279

This study examines change in social values and practice across the T'ang-Sung transition. Chapter One outlines changes in the rhetoric of funerary inscriptions between T'ang and Sung, and concludes that a major transformation of social values had taken place before the Sung began. It also describes a striking historiographical shift in the surviving sources from Northern and Southern Sung, such that while Northern Sung sources focus mainly on high-ranking individuals active at court, Southern Sung sources tend to focus on low- or non-ranked people, and say surprisingly little about the politically eminent. The study ultimately concludes that this historiographical shift is related to the dominance of Neo-Confucianism in post-Sung intellectual life.

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