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Author : George Kuwayama
Publisher : Far Eastern Art
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000029848698
Author : Colin Renfrew,Michael J. Boyd,Iain Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107082731
This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.
Author : Constance Cook
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047410638
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 : James L. Watson,Evelyn S. Rawski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0520071298
During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.
Author : Francis Allard,Yan Sun,Kathryn M. Linduff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472579
Applies the 'life history' of objects approach to China's prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.
Author : Sangzhang Juan
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921816864
The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which systematically introduces the funeral conception and manners, burial methods, criteria for choosing burial sites, mourning garments of the dead's relatives and mourning life in Chinese history, and so on. It reveals the development and evolution process of Chinese funeral customs, making readers have a further understanding of Chinese funeral customs and taboos different nationalities comprehensively.
Author : Alice Yao
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199367344
'The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China' offers a vivid account of the history of warrior polities occupying the southwestern frontiers of early China. Placing the archaeology of the 'Dian' and its Bronze Age neighbours in dialogue with anthropological theory, Alice Yao shows how local histories of kingship come to challenge and resist imperial governance as well as the production of historiography.
Author : Xiaoqun Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789811306327
This pivot compares mourning rituals in Archaic & Classical Greece and Pre-Qin China to illustrate some of the principles and methods used in comparative studies. It focuses on three main aspects of mourning of the dead before burial — lamentation, mourners’ gestures and behaviors, and mourning apparel — to demonstrate the cultural function, purpose, and social influence of mourning. A key comparative study of rituals at the heart of both Western and Chinese culture, this text highlights the cultural function and social influence of rituals of two ancient peoples and will be of interest to all scholars of comparative religion, sociology and anthropology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Burial
ISBN : 0889460760
Author : Sue Fawn Chung,Priscilla Wegars
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759114623
Death is a topic that has fascinated people for centuries. In the English-speaking world, eulogies in poetic form could be traced back to the 1640s, but gained prominence with the 'graveyard school' of poets in the eighteenth century often stressing the finality of death. Chinese American Death Rituals examines Chinese American funerary rituals and cemeteries from the late nineteenth century until the present in order to understand the importance of Chinese funerary rites and their transformation through time. The authors in this volume discuss the meaning of funerary rituals and their normative dimension and the social practices that have been influenced by tradition. Shaped by individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment, Chinese Americans have resolved the tensions between assimilation into the mainstream culture and their strong Chinese heritage in a variety of ways. This volume expertly describes and analyzes Chinese American cultural retention and transformation in rituals after death.
Author : Irene Winter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004174993
This second volume of Collected Essays, complement to volume one, focuses upon the art and culture of the third millennium B.C.E. in ancient Mesopotamia. Stress is upon the ability of free-standing sculpture and public monuments to both reflect cultural attitudes and to affect a viewing audience. Using Sumerian and Akkadian texts as well as works, the power of visual experience is pursued toward an understanding not only of the monuments but also of their times and our own.
Author : Mu-chou Poo,Muzhou Pu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107021174
This book employs textual and archaeological material to reconstruct the various features of daily life in ancient China.
Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861897183
We might think the Egyptians were the masters of building tombs, but no other civilization has devoted more time and resources to underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium B.C.E. to the early twentieth century, the Chinese have been building some of the world’s most elaborate tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects. It is these objects and the concept of the tomb as a “treasure-trove” that The Art of the Yellow Springs seeks to critique, drawing on recent scholarship to examine memorial sites the way they were meant to be experienced: not as a mere store of individual works, but as a work of art itself. Wu Hung bolsters some of the new trends in Chinese art history that have been challenging the conventional ways of studying funerary art. Examining the interpretative methods themselves that guide the study of memorials, he argues that in order to understand Chinese tombs, one must not necessarily forget the individual works present in them—as the beautiful color plates here will prove—but consider them along with a host of other art-historical concepts. These include notions of visuality, viewership, space, analysis, function, and context. The result is a ground-breaking new assessment that demonstrates the amazing richness of one of the longest-running traditions in the whole of art history.
Author : Zhengming Du
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443887830
Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals provides a comprehensive overview of the social practices of Chinese people on various occasions of cultural importance. While explaining how these rites and rituals are performed, it also introduces the reasons why certain norms are followed by individuals, families and the state as a whole. As such, the book offers a kaleidoscopic perspective on the plurality evident in all facets of Chinese culture.
Author : Hung Wu,Katherine R. Tsiang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174034
Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve contributors to this volume adopt a middle position. They agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. All of the chapters are historical case studies and investigate particular images, such as Han dynasty tomb figurines; Buddhist texts and illustrations; pictures of deprivation, illness, deformity, and ghosts; clothing; formal portraiture; and modern photographs and films. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, there emerges a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.