New year celebrations in central China in late imperial times / Göran Aijmer.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Aijmer, Göran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Chinese New Year--China--History.
• Chinese New Year.
• History.
• China--Social life and customs--1644-1912.
• China.
• Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

viii, 180 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, [2003]

Summary:

This study, which has been conducted in the spirit of a symbologically inclined anthropology, explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradition the celebration of the New Year in a lunar calendar of very ancient origins. A multitude of folk practices are analyzed within a holistic perspective on Chinese traditional society and the yield is a new picture of a world of the past in which the social rhetoric of gender, lineage continuity and ancestry are challenged by ritual manifestations of iconic symbolism. Through this study of Chinese imagery, the traditional calendar reveals new stories about the social organization of time as an expression of existential concerns in Chinese social life of the past.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9629960249

OCLC:

52399018