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Performing grief : bridal laments in rural China

Title: Performing grief : bridal laments in rural China / Anne E. McLaren.
Author: McLaren, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth)
Publication: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2008.

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Description

x, 209 p. : map; 24 cm.

Subjects

China > Social life and customs
Country life > China > Social life and customs
Brides > China > Social conditions
Women > China > Social conditions
Arranged marriage > China
Marriage customs and rites > China
Laments > China
Rural families > China > Social conditions
Oral tradition > China

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index.

Contents

Imagining Jiangnan -- The people of the sands -- The hollow cotton spool : women and labour in Nanhui -- Seizing a slice of heaven : the lament cycle of Pan Cailian -- Weeping and wailing in Chinese history -- Shaking heaven : laments & ritual power.

Call Number

*OVY 08-5947

ISBN

9780824832322 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0824832329 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008010175

OCLC

213408543

Author

McLaren, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth)

Title

Performing grief : bridal laments in rural China / Anne E. McLaren.

Imprint

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index.

Research Call Number

*OVY 08-5947

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