The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth Through Fourteenth Centuries (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) - Couverture souple

Pee, Christian De

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791470741 ISBN 13 : 9780791470749

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2008

Synopsis

A groundbreaking work that treats writing as a ritual practice and texts as ritual objects.

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Christian de Pee is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791470741
• ISBN 13: 9780791470749
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 382
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• Personne responsable: non disponible