The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth Through Fourteenth Centuries

De Pee, Christian

ISBN 10: 0791470741 / ISBN 13: 9780791470749

Published by State Univ of New York Pr, 2008

About this Item

336 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # zk0791470741

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth Through Fourteenth Centuries
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791470741
• ISBN 13: 9780791470749
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.55 kilograms

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Synopsis

A groundbreaking work that treats writing as a ritual practice and texts as ritual objects.

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.

About the Author

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