Death In Ancient China
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Author | : Constance Cook |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047410637 |
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This richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts. The point of departure is the textual and material evidence found in one tomb of an elite man buried in 316 BCE near a once wealthy middle Yangzi River valley metropolis. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of cosmological symbolism and the nature of the spirit world. The author shows how illness and death were perceived as steps in a spiritual journey from one realm into another. Transmitted textual records are compared with excavated texts. The layout and contents of this multi-chambered tomb are analyzed as are the contents of two texts, a record of divination and sacrifices performed during the last three years of the occupant’s life and a tomb inventory record of mortuary gifts. The texts are fully translated and annotated in the appendices. A first-time close-up view of a set of local beliefs which not only reflect the larger ancient Chinese religious system but also underlay the rich intellectual and artistic life of pre-Imperial China. With first full translations of texts previously unknown to all except a small handful of sinologists.
Author | : Amy Olberding |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2012-01-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438435649 |
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Mortality in Traditional China is the definitive exploration of a complex and fascinating but little-understood subject. Arguably, death as a concept has not been nearly as central a preoccupation in Chinese culture as it has been in the West. However, even in a society that seems to understand death as a part of life, responses to mortality are revealing and indicate much about what is valued and what is feared. This edited volume fills the lacuna on this subject, presenting an array of philosophical, artistic, historical, and religious perspectives on death during a variety of historical periods. Contributors look at material culture, including findings now available from the Mawangdui tomb excavations; consider death in Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist traditions; and discuss death and the history and philosophy of war.
Author | : Xiaoqing Wang |
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2006 |
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Download Concepts of Death and the Use of Simulacra in Ancient China Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Eduard Erkes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1940 |
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Author | : Colin Renfrew |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107082730 |
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This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.
Author | : Celeste Adams |
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Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : China, Ancient |
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Author | : Muzhou Pu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2018-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107021170 |
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This book employs textual and archaeological material to reconstruct the various features of daily life in ancient China.
Author | : Eduard Erkes |
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Release | : 1939* |
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Author | : Constance A. Cook |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2017-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438467125 |
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Using newly discovered and excavated texts, Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo systematically explore material culture, inscriptions, transmitted texts, and genealogies from BCE China to reconstruct the role of women in social reproduction in the ancient Chinese world. Applying paleographical, linguistic, and historical analyses, Cook and Luo discuss fertility rituals, birthing experiences, divine conceptions, divine births, and the overall influence of gendered supernatural agencies on the experience and outcome of birth. They unpack a cultural paradigm in which birth is not only a philosophical symbol of eternal return and renewal but also an abiding religious and social focus for lineage continuity. They also suggest that some of the mythical founder heroes traditionally assumed to be male may in fact have had female identities. Students of ancient history, particularly Chinese history, will find this book an essential complement to traditional historical narratives, while the exploration of ancient religious texts, many unknown in the West, provides a unique perspective into the study of the formation of mythology and the role of birthing in early religion.
Author | : Michelle King |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804785983 |
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Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Journalists, social scientists, and historians alike emphasize that it is a result of the persistence of son preference, from China's ancient past to its modern present. Yet how is it that the killing of newborn daughters has come to be so intimately associated with Chinese culture? Between Birth and Death locates a significant historical shift in the representation of female infanticide during the nineteenth century. It was during these years that the practice transformed from a moral and deeply local issue affecting communities into an emblematic cultural marker of a backwards Chinese civilization, requiring the scientific, religious, and political attention of the West. Using a wide array of Chinese, French and English primary sources, the book takes readers on an unusual historical journey, presenting the varied perspectives of those concerned with the fate of an unwanted Chinese daughter: a late imperial Chinese mother in the immediate moments following birth, a male Chinese philanthropist dedicated to rectifying moral behavior in his community, Western Sinological experts preoccupied with determining the comparative prevalence of the practice, Catholic missionaries and schoolchildren intent on saving the souls of heathen Chinese children, and turn-of-the-century reformers grappling with the problem as a challenge for an emerging nation.