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Death rituals and politics in Northern Song China / Mihwa Choi.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- This study examines how political and legal disputes regarding the performance of death rituals contributed to shape a revival of Confucianism in eleventh-century Northern Song China.
- 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
- Offering for saving of the souls
- Social imaginaries and politics in the narratives on the world-beyond and the supernatural
- Burial: a contested site for social imaginaries.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 19, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-084946-0
- 0-19-045979-4
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