Confucianism and family rituals in imperial China : a social history of writing about rites / Patricia Buckley Ebrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucianism--China--Rituals.

Confucianism.

China--Social life and customs.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages).

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian texts on family rituals were written, circulated, interpreted, and used as guides to action. Weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites were central features of Chinese culture; they gave drama to transitions in people's lives and conveyed conceptions of the hierarchy of society and the interdependency of the living and the dead. Patricia Ebrey's social history of Confucian texts shows much about how Chinese culture was created in a social setting, through the participation of people at all social levels. Books, like Chu Hsi's Family Rituals and its dozens of revisions, were important in forming ritual behavior in China because of the general respect for literature, the early spread of printing, and the absence of an ecclesiastic establishment authorized to rule on the acceptability of variations in ritual behavior. Ebrey shows how more and more of what people commonly did was approved in the liturgies and thus brought into the realm labeled Confucian.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

Chapter One. INTRODUCTION

Chapter Two. THE EARLY CONFUCIAN DISCOURSE ON FAMILY RITES

Chapter Three. REDESIGNING ANCESTRAL RITES FOR A NEW ELITE IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY

Chapter Four. COMBATING HETERODOXY AND VULGARITY IN WEDDINGS AND FUNERALS

Chapter Five. CHU HSI'S AUTHORSHIP OF THE FAMILY RITUALS

Chapter Six. THE ORTHODOXY OF CHU HSI'S FAMILY RITUALS

Chapter Seven. REVISED VERSIONS OF THE FAMILY RITUALS WRITTEN DURING THE MING DYNASTY

Chapter Eight. INTELLECTUALS' REEVALUATION OF THE FAMILY RITUALS IN THE CH'ING DYNASTY

Chapter Nine. CONFUCIAN TEXTS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF RITUALS

Chapter Ten. CONCLUSIONS

Appendix. A LIST OF REVISED VERSIONS OF THE FAMILY RITUALS

GLOSSARY

SOURCES CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-264) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-63535-8

0-691-60664-1

1-4008-6235-3

OCLC:

889252733