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Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao / Constance A. Cook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Constance A., author.
- Series:
- Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 107.
- Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 107
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ancestor worship--China--History--To 1500.
- Ancestor worship.
- Eulogies--China--History--To 1500.
- Eulogies.
- Laudatory poetry.
- Taoism and the arts--China--History--To 1500.
- Taoism and the arts.
- China--Kings and rulers.
- China.
- China--History--Zhou dynasty, 1122-221 B.C.
- China--History--Warring States, 403-221 B.C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Traces the rise of poetry from eulogies in BCE excavated texts and outlines the evolution of musical performance within and away from the context of ancestor worship. Compares the rhetoric of bronze inscriptions with later uses of similar terms in newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Part II
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-68417-091-5
- OCLC:
- 1153530026
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684170913 DOI
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