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Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China, The Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries

By Pee , Christian De

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780791470732, 0791470733, 9780791480151, 0791480151, 9781435616691, 1435616693
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2909675 bytes)
Series
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Pages
381 p\382
Time added
2020-11-29 04:09:49

Description

Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only recovers elements of the ritual practice of Middle-Period weddings, but also reassesses the relationship between texts and the Middle-Period past. Its fourfold narrative of the writing of weddings and its spirited engagement with the texts--ritual manuals, engagement letters, nuptial songs, calendars and almanacs, and legal texts--offer a form and style for a cultural history that accommodates the particularities of the sources of the Chinese imperial past.

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