Chu Hsi's Family Rituals : A Twelfth-Century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rites / Chu Hsi; Patricia Buckley Ebrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hsi, Chu, author.

Contributor:

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- editor.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Library of Asian Translations ; 100

Standardized Title:

Jia li. English & Chinese

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies--China.

Rites and ceremonies.

China--Social life and customs--960-1644.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Other Title:

Family rituals.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1991

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manual for the private performance of the standard Chinese family rituals: initiations, weddings, funerals, and sacrifices to ancestral spirits. This translation makes the work, which is the most important text of its kind in the last thousand years of Chinese history, fully accessible to scholars and students in a wide range of fields. The militantly Confucian Family Rituals was designed to combat the practices of Buddhist and other non-Confucian rites, and it was quickly recognized as the standard authority by the state, the educated elite, and even by many uneducated commoners. With the spread of Neo-Confucianism, it was honored also in Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. Patricia Buckley Ebrey has added notes showing how the Family Rituals enhances our understanding of Chinese society and culture. She cites many of the commentaries on the work to give a sense of its uses in the centuries after its publication.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

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE: General Principles of Ritual

CHAPTER TWO: The Capping Ceremony

CHAPTER THREE: Weddings

CHAPTER FOUR: Funerals

CHAPTER FIVE: Sacrificial Rites

APPENDIX A: Editions of Chu Hsi's

APPENDIX B: Chinese Text of Chu Hsi's

GLOSSARY

SOURCES CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Includes original Chinese text.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.

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

ISBN:

9780691634265

0691634262

9780691605289

0691605289

9781400861958

1400861950

OCLC:

884012930