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Death rituals and politics in Northern Song China / Mihwa Choi.
Van Pelt Library GT3283.A2 C52 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Choi, Mihwa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Confucian--China--History--To 1500.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Confucian.
- Confucianism and state--China--History--To 1500.
- Confucianism and state.
- History.
- China.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- The adaptation of ancestral ritual to serve the royal imaginary
- "How does heaven come to speak?" : the contesting discourse and the revival of Confucian death rituals
- Ordering society through Confucian rituals
- Social imaginaries and politics in the narratives on the world-beyond and the supernatural
- Burial : a contested site for social imaginaries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190459765
- 019045976X
- OCLC:
- 999673542
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