Author: Watson, James L.

Death ritual in late imperial and modern China
Date1988
Publish_locationBerkeley
PublisherUniversity of California Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook (Proceedings)
SeriesStudies on China ; 8
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberGT3283.D43 1988
Descriptionxv, 334 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
NoteEdited by James L. Watson, Evelyn S. Rawski.
Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held at the Sun Space Ranch Conference Center in Oracle, Ariz., Jan. 2-7, 1985 and sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Structure of Chinese funerary rites; historian's approach; funerals in North China, death, food and fertility; funeral specialists in Cantonese society, social hierarchy; grief and grieving, laments of Hakka women, gender/ideological differences in representations of life and death; conflicting themes in Chinese popular religion; graves in Southeastern China; Ming and Qing Emperors and death ritual. Mao's remains, death in the PRC.
SubjectFuneral rites and ceremonies--China Funeral customs--China Funerals--China--History Death in popular culture--China
Seriesfoo 87
ISBN0520071298
LCCN87-5982
Kinship organization in late imperial China, 1000-1940
Date1987
Publish_locationTaipei 臺北
PublisherSouthern Materials Center
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
EditionTaiwan ed.
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
SeriesStudies on China ; 5
ShelfDir. Office Gallery North
Call NumberGN635.C5 K56 1987
Descriptionxvi, 319 p. : ill., genealogical tables, maps ; 24 cm.
NoteKinship organization in late imperial China, 1000-1940 / edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and James L. Watson.
"Taiwan edition"
Reprint. Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press,1986.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
SubjectChina--Social life and customs Family--China--History Kinship--China--History Family records Families--China
Seriesfoo 88