Author: Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)

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.
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SubjectFuneral rites and ceremonies--China Funeral customs--China Funerals--China--History Death in popular culture--China
Seriesfoo 87
ISBN0520071298
LCCN87-5982
Orthodoxy in late imperial China
Date1990
Publish_locationBerkeley
PublisherUniversity of California Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook (Conference Proceedings)
SeriesStudies on China ; 10
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS754.14.O78 1990
Descriptionxi, 364 p. ; 24 cm.
NoteOrthodoxy in late imperial China / edited by Kwang-Ching Liu.
Papers originally presented at a conference held at Montecito, Calif. in Aug. 1981, sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
Keywords: Statecraft; social regulations of the First Ming Emperor; official and popular religion in the Ming; Qing academies, 1736-1839 ; Patriarchy, household instructions, transmission of orthodox values, family conflict in Qing legal cases, tenant servants of Huizhou; lineage and surname feuds in southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong under the Qing; ritual in Qing culture; 20th century peasant proverbs.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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SubjectChina--Civilization--1644-1911--Congresses China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911--Congresses Philosophy, Confucian--Congresses
Seriesfoo 89
ISBN0520065425
LCCN89-34733