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Author: James L. Watson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520071298
Size: 32.68 MB
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Release Date: 1988
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Ritual In Late Imperial And Modern China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.

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Book Detail:
Author: James L. Watson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520071292
Size: 59.11 MB
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Release Date: 1988
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Ritual In Late Imperial And Modern China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.

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Book Detail:
Author: Evelyn S. Rawski
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520228375
Size: 24.99 MB
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Release Date: 1998
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Last Emperors eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Qing Dynasty was the last of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski re-interprets the remarkable success of this dynasty, arguing that it derived not from the assimilation of the dominant Chinese culture but rather from an artful synthesis of Manchu leadership styles with Han Chinese policies.

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Book Detail:
Author: Norman Kutcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521624398
Size: 53.96 MB
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Release Date: 1999-08-13
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Mourning In Late Imperial China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. To win the approval of China's native elites, Qing China's new Manchu leaders developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society by observing laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian society. The first to do so in any language, Norman Kutcher's study of mourning looks beneath the rhetoric to demonstrate how the state--unwilling to make the sacrifices that a genuine commitment to proper mourning demanded--quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system.

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Book Detail:
Author: Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691031507
Size: 45.32 MB
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Release Date: 1991
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Confucianism And Family Rituals In Imperial China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian texts on family rituals were written, circulated, interpreted, and used as guides to action. Weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites were central features of Chinese culture; they gave drama to transitions in people's lives and conveyed conceptions of the hierarchy of society and the interdependency of the living and the dead. Patricia Ebrey's social history of Confucian texts shows much about how Chinese culture was created in a social setting, through the participation of people at all social levels. Books, like Chu Hsi's Family Rituals and its dozens of revisions, were important in forming ritual behavior in China because of the general respect for literature, the early spread of printing, and the absence of an ecclesiastic establishment authorized to rule on the acceptability of variations in ritual behavior. Ebrey shows how more and more of what people commonly did was approved in the liturgies and thus brought into the realm labeled Confucian. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Book Detail:
Author: Joseph P. McDermott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521621571
Size: 67.30 MB
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Release Date: 1999-09-16
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF State And Court Ritual In China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This broad-ranging examination of Chinese court and state ritual from 1000 BC to AD 1750 represents the first modern comprehensive account of the subject in any language. The essays demonstrate how and why ritual has played such a fundamental and often controversial role in the practice of Chinese politics. By tracing the political and social development of particular rituals, such as imperial funerals and popular religious practices or Buddhist ordination ceremonies and court audiences, the authors set out to convey their historical significance. Further discussion of the role of ritual in relation to language, and elite and popular concepts of emperorhood is included in the volume. The book will be of interest to students of Chinese history, anthropology and religion, as well as those seeking to understand the legacy of that history in modern China.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Stafford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134404018
Size: 60.85 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2003-09-02
Category: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Language: en
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Download PDF Living With Separation In China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kenneth Lieberthal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315288753
Size: 40.34 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2016-09-16
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Perspectives On Modern China Four Anniversaries eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The conveners (the editors of this book) of the September 1989 Four Anniversaries China Conference in Annapolis, asked the contributors to look back from that point in time to consider four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese society, economy, polity, and sense of place in the world in the 1980s, a time when China was making rapid strides toward becoming more integrated with the outside world. With contributions by distinguished scholars in the field, the four anniversaries considered are the High Qing, the May Fourth Movement, forty years of communism in China, and ten years of the Deng era.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lars Peter Laamann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134429983
Size: 39.61 MB
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Release Date: 2013-05-13
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Christian Heretics In Late Imperial China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China's Christian communities to become self-reliant in perpetuating the basic principles of their faith. Left to their own devices, the missionary seed developed into a panoply of indigenous traditions, with Christian ancestry as the common denominator. Christianity thus underwent the same process of inculturation as previous religious traditions in China, such as Buddhism and Judaism. As the guardian of orthodox morality, the prosecuting state sought to exercise all-pervading control over popular thoughts and social functions. Filling the gap within the discourse of Christianity in China and also as part of the wider analysis of religion in late Imperial China, this study presents the campaigns against Christians during this period as part and parcel of the campaign against 'heresy' and 'heretical' movements in general.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sue Fawn Chung
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759114625
Size: 71.77 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2005-09-15
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Chinese American Death Rituals eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Death is a topic that has fascinated people for centuries. In the English-speaking world, eulogies in poetic form could be traced back to the 1640s, but gained prominence with the 'graveyard school' of poets in the eighteenth century often stressing the finality of death. Chinese American Death Rituals examines Chinese American funerary rituals and cemeteries from the late nineteenth century until the present in order to understand the importance of Chinese funerary rites and their transformation through time. The authors in this volume discuss the meaning of funerary rituals and their normative dimension and the social practices that have been influenced by tradition. Shaped by individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment, Chinese Americans have resolved the tensions between assimilation into the mainstream culture and their strong Chinese heritage in a variety of ways. This volume expertly describes and analyzes Chinese American cultural retention and transformation in rituals after death.

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Book Detail:
Author: Shang Wei
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170435
Size: 16.84 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020-10-26
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Rulin Waishi And Cultural Transformation In Late Imperial China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Rulin waishi (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is more than a landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. This eighteenth-century work, which was deeply embedded in the intellectual and literary discourses of its time, challenges the reader to come to grips with the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, and the construction of history, narrative, and lyricism. Wu Jingzi’s (1701–54) ironic portrait of literati life was unprecedented in its comprehensive treatment of the degeneration of mores, the predicaments of official institutions, and the Confucian elite’s futile struggle to reassert moral and cultural authority. Like many of his fellow literati, Wu found the vernacular novel an expressive and malleable medium for discussing elite concerns. Through a close reading of Rulin waishi, Shang Wei seeks to answer such questions as What accounts for the literati’s enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Does this enthusiasm bespeak a conscious effort to develop a community of critical discourse outside the official world? Why did literati authors eschew publication? What are the bases for their social and cultural criticisms? How far do their criticisms go, given the authors’ alleged Confucianism? And if literati authors were interested solely in recovering moral and cultural hegemony for their class, how can we explain the irony found in their works?

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Stafford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521784344
Size: 40.67 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2000-11-09
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Separation And Reunion In Modern China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this original and readable book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China, he gives a vivid account of raucous festivals of reunion, elaborate rituals for the sending-off of gods (and daughters), poetic moments of leave-takings between friends, and bitter political rhetoric about Chinese national unity. The idioms and practices of separation and reunion - which are woven into the fabric of daily life - help people to explain the passions aroused by the possibility of national division. In this book, the discussion of everyday rituals leads into a unique and accessible general introduction to Chinese and Taiwanese society and culture.

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Book Detail:
Author: Huwy-min Lucia Liu
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501767240
Size: 40.58 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2023-01-15
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Governing Death Making Persons eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into "modern" citizens and subjects. Since the Reform and Opening period and the marketization of state funeral parlors, the Party has promoted personalized funerals in the hope of promoting a market-oriented and individualistic ethos. However, things have not gone as planned. Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about the funerals she witnessed and the life stories of two kinds of funeral workers: state workers who are quasi-government officials and semilegal private funeral brokers. She shows that end-of-life commemoration in urban China today is characterized by the resilience of social conventions and not a shift toward market economy individualization. Rather than seeing a rise of individualism and the decline of a socialist self, Liu sees the durability of socialist, religious, communal, and relational ideas of self, woven together through creative ritual framings in spite of their contradictions.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Stafford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113440400X
Size: 22.19 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2003-09-02
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Living With Separation In China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. First Published in 2004. Separation – for example the process of leaving behind, temporarily or permanently, individuals to whom we are attached – is something experienced by humans in all societies. In the case of China, the rituals and practices associated with separation – and with its corollary, reunion – are especially elaborate. They are crucial elements within the Chinese cultural tradition. In addressing – through the use of case studies – the central theme of separation, this book also provides a good general introduction to many of the classic debates within anthropological and historical analyses of China. It will, therefore, prove an interesting and useful resource to students of Asian studies and anthropology as well as the general reader with an interest in the Chinese cultural tradition.

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Book Detail:
Author: Quinn Javers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429638760
Size: 17.40 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2019-03-11
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Conflict Community And The State In Late Imperial Sichuan eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Exploring local practices of dispute resolution and laying bare the routine role of violence in the late-Qing dynasty, Conflict, Community, and the State in Late Imperial Sichuan demonstrates the significance of everyday violence in ordering, disciplining, and building communities. The book examines over 350 legal cases that comprise the "cases of unnatural death" archival file from 1890 to 1900 in Ba County, Sichuan province. The archive presents an untidy array of death, including homicides, suicides, and found bodies. An analysis of the muddled and often petty disputes found in these records reveals the existence of a local system of authority that disciplined and maintained daily life. Often relying on violence, this local justice system occasionally intersected with the state’s justice system, but was not dependent on it. This study demonstrates the importance of informal, local authority to our understanding of justice in the late Qing era. Providing a non-elite perspective on Qing power, law, justice, and the role of the state, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese and Asian history, as well as legal history and comparative studies of violence.

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Book Detail:
Author: Daniel Asen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316712524
Size: 62.92 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2016-07-28
Category: Technology & Engineering
Language: en
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Download PDF Death In Beijing eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this innovative and engaging history of homicide investigation in Republican Beijing, Daniel Asen explores the transformation of ideas about death in China in the first half of the twentieth century. In this period, those who died violently or under suspicious circumstances constituted a particularly important population of the dead, subject to new claims by police, legal and medical professionals, and a newspaper industry intent on covering urban fatality in sensational detail. Asen examines the process through which imperial China's old tradition of forensic science came to serve the needs of a changing state and society under these dramatically new circumstances. This is a story of the unexpected outcomes and contingencies of modernity, presenting new perspectives on China's transition from empire to modern nation state, competing visions of science and expertise, and the ways in which the meanings of death and dead bodies changed amid China's modern transformation.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004271643
Size: 25.76 MB
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Release Date: 2014-12-04
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Modern Chinese Religion I 2 Vols eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Defining religion as “value systems in practice”, Modern Chinese Religion is a multi-disciplinary work that shows the processes of rationalization and interiorization at work in the rituals, self-cultivation practices, thought, and iconography of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism in the 10th-14th centuries.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mihwa Choi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019045976X
Size: 34.81 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2017
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Rituals And Politics In Northern Song China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The adaptation of ancestral ritual to serve the royal imaginary -- How does heaven come to speak?: the contesting discourse and the revival of Confucian death rituals -- Ordering society through Confucian rituals -- Offering for saving of the souls -- Social imaginaries and politics in the narratives on the world-beyond and the supernatural -- Burial: a contested site for social imaginaries

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Book Detail:
Author: Clifton D. Bryant
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1452265151
Size: 28.47 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2003-10-01
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Handbook Of Death And Dying eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Dying is a social as well as physiological phenomenon. Each society characterizes and, consequently, treats death and dying in its own individual ways—ways that differ markedly. These particular patterns of death and dying engender modal cultural responses, and such institutionalized behavior has familiar, economical, educational, religious, and political implications. The Handbook of Death and Dying takes stock of the vast literature in the field of thanatology, arranging and synthesizing what has been an unwieldy body of knowledge into a concise, yet comprehensive reference work. This two-volume handbook will provide direction and momentum to the study of death-related behavior for many years to come. Key Features More than 100 contributors representing authoritative expertise in a diverse array of disciplines Anthropology Family Studies History Law Medicine Mortuary Science Philosophy Psychology Social work Sociology Theology A distinguished editorial board of leading scholars and researchers in the field More than 100 definitive essays covering almost every dimension of death-related behavior Comprehensive and inclusive, exploring concepts and social patterns within the larger topical concern Journal article length essays that address topics with appropriate detail Multidisciplinary and cross-cultural coverage

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Book Detail:
Author: Kwang-Ching Liu
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825386
Size: 33.65 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Heterodoxy In Late Imperial China eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Ten international academics explore heterodoxy dissent challenging the beliefs and meanings of the established norm in late Imperial China. In this process, they trace the origins of the cultural and intellectual protests to aspects of Daoism and Buddhism in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911)

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