The writing of weddings in middle-period China : text and ritual practice in the eighth through fourteenth centuries /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Pee, Christian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Colección:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Temas:
618-1279
Marriage customs and rites > China.
Weddings in literature.
Mariage > Rites et cérémonies > Chine.
Noces dans la littérature.
REFERENCE > Weddings.
Marriage customs and rites
Song Dynasty (China)
Tang Dynasty (China)
Weddings in literature
China > History > Tang dynasty, 618-907.
China > History > Song dynasty, 960-1279.
Chine > Histoire > 618-907 (Dynastie des Tang)
Chine > Histoire > 960-1279 (Dynastie des Song)
China
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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