ISBN:
9780520910478
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0520910478
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058510851X
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9780585108513
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 334 pages, [8] pages of plates)
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illustrations.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Bell, Catherine M., 1953 - 2008 Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China. James L. Watson , Evelyn S. Rawski 1991
Series Statement:
Studies on China 8
Parallel Title:
Print version Death ritual in late imperial and modern China
DDC:
393/.0951
Keywords:
Funeral rites and ceremonies China
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China
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Totenkult
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Funérailles ; Rites et cérémonies ; Chine
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Death & Dying
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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China
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China
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift 1985
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture. - Publisher's description
Abstract:
The structure of Chinese funerary rites: elementary forms, ritual sequence, and the primacy of performance / James L. Watson -- A historian's approach to Chinese death ritual / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Funerals in North China: uniformity and variation / Susan Naquin -- Death, food, and fertility / Stuart E. Thompson -- Funeral specialists in Cantonese society: pollution, performance, and social hierarchy / James L. Watson -- Grieving for the dead, grieving for the living: funeral laments of Hakka women / Elizabeth L. Johnson -- Gender and ideological differences in representations of life and death / Emily Martin -- Souls and salvation: conflicting themes in Chinese popular religion / Myron L. Cohen -- Remembering the dead: graves and politics in Southeastern China / Rubie S. Watson -- The imperial way of death: Ming and Ch'ing emperors and death ritual / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Mao's remains / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- Death in the People's Republic of China / Martin K. Whyte.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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Rev. versions of papers presented at a conference held at the Sun Space Ranch Conference Center in Oracle, Ariz., Jan. 2-7, 1985 and sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council
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