Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0295746416 ISBN 13 : 9780295746418

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2019

Synopsis

Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased’s biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors’ longing for the dead. These epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children—people who are not well documented in more conventional sources such as dynastic histories and local gazetteers. This anthology of translations makes available funerary biographies covering nearly two thousand years, from the Han dynasty through the nineteenth century, selected for their value as teaching material for courses in Chinese history, literature, and women’s studies as well as world history. Because they include revealing details about personal conduct, families, local conditions, and social, cultural, and religious practices, these epitaphs illustrate ways of thinking and the realities of daily life. Most can be read and analyzed on multiple levels, and they stimulate investigation of topics such as the emotional tenor of family relations, rituals associated with death, Confucian values, women’s lives as written about by men, and the use of sources assumed to be biased. These biographies will be especially effective when combined with more readily available primary sources such as official documents, religious and intellectual discourses, and anecdotal stories, promising to generate provocative discussion of literary genre, the ways historians use sources, and how writers shape their accounts.

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À propos des auteurs

Patricia Ebrey is professor emeritus of history at the University of Washington. Among her publications are Emperor Huizong (Harvard University Press, 2014), Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (University of Washington Press, 2008), The Cambridge History of China (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period (University of California Press, 1993).

Ping Yao is professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the coauthor of East Asia: A Documentary History (Cognella, 2016), Gendering Chinese Religion: Subject, Identity, and Body (SUNY Press, 2014), and Sharing the World Stage: Biography and Gender in World History (Houghton Mifflin 2007).

Cong Ellen Zhang is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song (960-1279) China (University of Hawai'i Press, 2011) and coeditor of Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives (University of Washington Press, 2019).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295746416
• ISBN 13: 9780295746418
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Ebrey Patricia Buckley, Yao Ping, Zhang Cong Ellen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible