Chinese Ritual And Politics
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Chinese Ritual And Politics
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Author : Emily Martin Ahern
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-17
Chinese Ritual And Politics written by Emily Martin Ahern and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-17 with Social Science categories.
As a result of the strength and dominance of the centralized state, ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action. In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of this. She argues that forms of control attempted ritually on non-human persons (gods and other spirits) in China parallel those forms of control which people regard as effective in ordinary life, namely political control, and draws important conclusions from this. She shows that in China it is possible to discard terms such as 'magic', which imply that acts directed to spirits operate on a different basis from acts in ordinary life. She also challenges claims in anthropology that, since they seem arbitrary and the actions of participants in them highly predictable, rituals support established authority. Her book will be of interest not only to specialists in Chinese studies, but to social anthropologists and others interested in the link between ritual and political processes.
Death Rituals And Politics In Northern Song China
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Author : Mihwa Choi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Death Rituals And Politics In Northern Song China written by Mihwa Choi and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
The adaptation of ancestral ritual to serve the royal imaginary -- How does heaven come to speak?: the contesting discourse and the revival of Confucian death rituals -- Ordering society through Confucian rituals -- Offering for saving of the souls -- Social imaginaries and politics in the narratives on the world-beyond and the supernatural -- Burial: a contested site for social imaginaries
Art Myth And Ritual P
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Author : Kwang-chih CHANG
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Art Myth And Ritual P written by Kwang-chih CHANG and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Social Science categories.
A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ranges widely from recent archaeological discoveries to studies of mythology, ancient Chinese poetry, and the iconography of Shang food vessels.
Village Life In Hong Kong
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Author : James L. Watson
language : en
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date : 2004
Village Life In Hong Kong written by James L. Watson and has been published by Chinese University of Hong Kong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
This book is a collection of revised articles based on the authors'fieldwork on two villages in Yuen Long, a rural district of Hong Kong. It presents the authors'observations and their interpretation of life in a southern Chinese village under the process of urbanization.
Art Myth And Ritual
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Author : Kwang-chih Chang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Art Myth And Ritual written by Kwang-chih Chang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with China categories.
State And Court Ritual In China
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Author : Joseph P. McDermott
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-09-16
State And Court Ritual In China written by Joseph P. McDermott and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-16 with History categories.
This broad-ranging examination of Chinese court and state ritual from 1000 BC to AD 1750 represents the first modern comprehensive account of the subject in any language. The essays demonstrate how and why ritual has played such a fundamental and often controversial role in the practice of Chinese politics. By tracing the political and social development of particular rituals, such as imperial funerals and popular religious practices or Buddhist ordination ceremonies and court audiences, the authors set out to convey their historical significance. Further discussion of the role of ritual in relation to language, and elite and popular concepts of emperorhood is included in the volume. The book will be of interest to students of Chinese history, anthropology and religion, as well as those seeking to understand the legacy of that history in modern China.
Small Groups And Political Rituals In China
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Author : Martin King Whyte
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Small Groups And Political Rituals In China written by Martin King Whyte and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Statecraft And Classical Learning
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Author : Benjamin Elman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-10-12
Statecraft And Classical Learning written by Benjamin Elman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-12 with Political Science categories.
Devoted to the ancient Chinese Classic Rituals of Zhou, this book presents a multi-faceted picture of the life of the text from its inception some two millennia ago to its modern political and scholarly discourse across East Asia.
Superstitious Regimes
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Author : Rebecca Nodostup
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-07-01
Superstitious Regimes written by Rebecca Nodostup and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Religion categories.
"We live in a world shaped by secularism—the separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from the political, social, and economic realms of public life. Not only has progress toward modernity often been equated with secularization, but when religion is admitted into modernity, it has been distinguished from superstition. That such ideas are continually contested does not undercut their extraordinary influence. These divisions underpin this investigation of the role of religion in the construction of modernity and political power during the Nanjing Decade (1927–1937) of Nationalist rule in China. This book explores the modern recategorization of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities. It also looks at how politicians conceived of their own ritual role in an era when authority was meant to derive from popular sovereignty. The claims of secular nationalism and mobilizational politics prompted the Nationalists to conceive of the world of religious association as a dangerous realm of “superstition” that would destroy the nation. This is the first “superstitious regime” of the book’s title. It also convinced them that national feeling and faith in the party-state would replace those ties—the second “superstitious regime.”"
The Board Of Rites And The Making Of Qing China
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Author : Macabe Keliher
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15
The Board Of Rites And The Making Of Qing China written by Macabe Keliher and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with History categories.
The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing on the symbolic practices that structured domination and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation, and argues that in addition to war making and institution building, the disciplining of diverse political actors, and the construction of political order through symbolic acts were essential undertakings in the making of the Qing state. Beginning in 1631 with the establishment of the key disciplinary organization, the Board of Rites, and culminating with the publication of the first administrative code in 1690, Keliher shows that the Qing political environment was premised on sets of intertwined relationships constantly performed through acts such as the New Year’s Day ceremony, greeting rites, and sumptuary regulations, or what was referred to as li in Chinese. Drawing on Chinese- and Manchu-language archival sources, this book is the first to demonstrate how Qing state-makers drew on existing practices and made up new ones to reimagine political culture and construct a system of domination that lay the basis for empire.