Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers: Ritual Change and Social Transformation in a Southeastern Chinese Community, 1368-1949 - Couverture rigide

Livre 15 sur 20: Religion in Chinese Societies

Liu, Yonghua

 
9789004257245: Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers: Ritual Change and Social Transformation in a Southeastern Chinese Community, 1368-1949
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004257241 ISBN 13 : 9789004257245
Editeur : Brill, 2013

Synopsis

In Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers, Yonghua Liu presents a detailed study of how a southeastern Chinese community experienced and responded to the process whereby Confucian rituals - previously thought unfit for practice by commoners - were adopted in the Chinese countryside and became an integral part of village culture, from the mid fourteenth to mid twentieth centuries.

The book examines the important but understudied ritual specialists, masters of rites (lisheng), and their ritual handbooks while showing their crucial role in the ritual life of Chinese villagers. This discussion of lisheng and their rituals deepens our understanding of the ritual aspect of popular Confucianism and sheds new light on social and cultural transformations in late imperial China.

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À propos de l?auteur

Yonghua Liu, Ph.D. (McGill, 2004), is Professor of History at Xiamen University, China. He has published over two dozen articles on economic, social, and cultural history of late imperial China.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004257241
ISBN 13 
9789004257245
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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