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The writing of weddings in middle-period China : text and ritual practice in the eighth through fourteenth centuries
- Title
- The writing of weddings in middle-period China : text and ritual practice in the eighth through fourteenth centuries / Christian de Pee.
- Author
- De Pee, Christian.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 365 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-355) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The practice of the text -- Ritual manuals : exegetical hermeneutics and the re-embodiment of antiquity -- Wedding correspondence and nuptial songs : writing as cultural capital and text as ritual object -- Calendars, almanacs, miracle tales, and medical texts : cosmic cycles and the liminal affairs of man -- Legal codes, verdicts, and contracts : universal order and local practice -- Conclusion: Texts and tombs, ritual and history.
- Call Number
- *OVR 07-1057
- ISBN
- 0791470733 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780791470732 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006025531
- OCLC
- 70864458
- Author
- De Pee, Christian.
- Title
- The writing of weddings in middle-period China : text and ritual practice in the eighth through fourteenth centuries / Christian de Pee.
- Imprint
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.
- Series
- SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-355) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- *OVR 07-1057