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Death ritual in late imperial and modern China
- Title
- Death ritual in late imperial and modern China / edited by James L. Watson, Evelyn S. Rawski.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1988.
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- Description
- xv, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture. - Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Studies on China ; 8
- Uniform Title
- Studies on China ; 8.
- Subject
- Note
- Rev. versions of papers presented at a conference held at the Sun Space Ranch Conference Center in Oracle, Ariz., Jan. 2-7, 1985 and sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The structure of Chinese funerary rites: elementary forms, ritual sequence, and the primacy of performance / James L. Watson -- A historian's approach to Chinese death ritual / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Funerals in North China: uniformity and variation / Susan Naquin -- Death, food, and fertility / Stuart E. Thompson -- Funeral specialists in Cantonese society: pollution, performance, and social hierarchy / James L. Watson -- Grieving for the dead, grieving for the living: funeral laments of Hakka women / Elizabeth L. Johnson -- Gender and ideological differences in representations of life and death / Emily Martin -- Souls and salvation: conflicting themes in Chinese popular religion / Myron L. Cohen -- Remembering the dead: graves and politics in Southeastern China / Rubie S. Watson -- The imperial way of death: Ming and Ch'ing emperors and death ritual / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Mao's remains / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- Death in the People's Republic of China / Martin K. Whyte.
- ISBN
- 0520060814
- 9780520060814
- 0520071298
- 9780520071292
- 0052006081
- 9780052006083
- 0052006085
- LCCN
- 87005982
- OCLC
- ocm15488954
- 15488954
- SCSB-1704698
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library