Evelyn S. Rawski.
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-442) and index.

Material culture of the Qing court--Social organization of the Qing court : conquest elite and Imperial lineage, sibling politics, Imperial women, Palace servants--Qing court rituals : rulership and ritual action in the Chinese realm, Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism at Court, private rituals.
Appendix: Names of Qing Emperors and Imperial Ancestors ; Imperial Princely Ranks Added keywords: Zongshi 宗室, consorts, eunuchs, consort tombs, fertility of Qing empresses and consorts, generational elements in personal names, survival rates of Qing emperor's sons versus daughters, age at death of daughters, 1651-1900, age at marriage, performers of grand sacrifices during Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong ; Manchus, ethnicity.

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Of body & brush : Grand sacrifice as text/performance in eighteenth-century China / Angela Zito.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-290) and index.

Prologue: Clothing, Carrying, and Codifying -- pt. 1. Ruling Boundaries. 1. Signifying Emperorship: Of Portraits and Princes. 2. Method, Monarchy, and Ritual -- pt. 2. Text: Editing the Ritual Corpus. 3. Classifying Li: Time and Agency. 4. Writing the Ritualist Metaphysics: Self and World -- pt. 3. Performance: The Ritualizing Body Inscribes. 5. Sacrificial Spaces: Contextualizing the City. 6. Cosmic Preparation: Orders of Knowledge. 7. Filial Ceremony: Centering. 8. The Politics of Boundary: Inscription and Incorporation.