The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth Through Fourteenth Centuries (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) - Softcover

Pee, Christian De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791470741 ISBN 13: 9780791470749

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2008

Synopsis

Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only recovers elements of the ritual practice of Middle-Period weddings, but also reassesses the relationship between texts and the Middle-Period past. Its fourfold narrative of the writing of weddings and its spirited engagement with the texts—ritual manuals, engagement letters, nuptial songs, calendars and almanacs, and legal texts—offer a form and style for a cultural history that accommodates the particularities of the sources of the Chinese imperial past.

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About the Author

Christian de Pee is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791470741
• ISBN 13: 9780791470749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 365