Chinese Funerary Biographies

Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Ping Yao,Cong Ellen Zhang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746425

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Chinese Funerary Biographies by Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Ping Yao,Cong Ellen Zhang Pdf

Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased’s biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors’ longing for the dead. These epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children—people who are not well documented in more conventional sources such as dynastic histories and local gazetteers. This anthology of translations makes available funerary biographies covering nearly two thousand years, from the Han dynasty through the nineteenth century, selected for their value as teaching material for courses in Chinese history, literature, and women’s studies as well as world history. Because they include revealing details about personal conduct, families, local conditions, and social, cultural, and religious practices, these epitaphs illustrate ways of thinking and the realities of daily life. Most can be read and analyzed on multiple levels, and they stimulate investigation of topics such as the emotional tenor of family relations, rituals associated with death, Confucian values, women’s lives as written about by men, and the use of sources assumed to be biased. These biographies will be especially effective when combined with more readily available primary sources such as official documents, religious and intellectual discourses, and anecdotal stories, promising to generate provocative discussion of literary genre, the ways historians use sources, and how writers shape their accounts.

Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Cong Ellen Zhang,Ping Yao,Professor of History Ping Yao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0295751223

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Chinese Chinese Autobiographical Writing by Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Cong Ellen Zhang,Ping Yao,Professor of History Ping Yao Pdf

Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Ping Yao (Professor of history),Cong Ellen Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Burial
ISBN : 0295746416

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Chinese Funerary Biographies by Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Ping Yao (Professor of history),Cong Ellen Zhang Pdf

"Tens of thousands of epitaphs or funerary biographies survive from imperial China. Written to be engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased's biographical information and exemplary words and deeds, expressing survivors' longing for the dead. Epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of people who are not well-documented in such sources as the dynastic histories and local gazetteers: women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children. This anthology makes available a set of funerary biographies covering nearly two thousand years of history, from the Han dynasty through the nineteenth century, selected for their potential as teaching material for courses on Chinese history, literature, and women's studies as well as world history. Funerary biographies, due to their inclusion of telling details about personal conduct, family life, local conditions, and social, cultural, and religious practices, can illustrate ways of thinking and the realities of daily life. Since most funerary biographies can be read and analyzed on multiple levels, they have the potential to stimulate discussion of topics such as the emotional tenor of family life, rituals associated with death, whether the values seen in these biographies should be called Confucian, ways to analyze women's lives from sources written by men, and how to use sources that can be assumed to be biased. These biographies will be especially effective when combined with more readily available primary sources such as official documents, religious and intellectual discourses, and anecdotal stories, promising to generate interesting discussion about literary genre, the ways historians use sources, and how writers shape their accounts"--

Author : Francis Allard,Yan Sun,Kathryn M. Linduff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472579

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Memory and Agency in Ancient China by Francis Allard,Yan Sun,Kathryn M. Linduff Pdf

Applies the 'life history' of objects approach to China's prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.

Author : Cong Ellen Zhang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824884406

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Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China by Cong Ellen Zhang Pdf

Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960–1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of time, preventing them from fulfilling their most sacred domestic duty: filial piety to their parents. In this deeply grounded work, Cong Ellen Zhang locates the tension between worldly ambition and family duty at the heart of elite social and cultural life. Drawing on more than two thousand funerary biographies and other official and private writing, Zhang argues that the predicament in which Song literati found themselves diminished neither the importance of filial piety nor the appeal of participating in examinations and government service. On the contrary, the Northern Song witnessed unprecedented literati activity and state involvement in the bolstering of ancient forms of filial performances and the promotion of new ones. The result was the triumph of a new filial ideal: luyang. By labeling highly coveted honors and privileges attainable solely through scholarly and official accomplishments as the most celebrated filial acts, the luyang rhetoric elevated office-holding men to be the most filial of sons. Consequently, the proper performance of filiality became essential to scholar-official identity and self-representation. Zhang convincingly demonstrates that this reconfiguration of elite male filiality transformed filial piety into a status- and gender-based virtue, a change that had wide implications for elite family life and relationships in the Northern Song. The separation of elite men from their parents and homes also made the idea of “native place” increasingly fluid. This development in turn generated an interest in family preservation as filial performance. Individually initiated, kinship- and native place-based projects flourished and coalesced with the moral and cultural visions of leading scholar-intellectuals, providing the social and familial foundations for the ascendancy of Neo-Confucianism as well as new cultural norms that transformed Chinese society in the Song and beyond.

Author : Ping Yao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317237501

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Women, Gender, and Sexuality in China by Ping Yao Pdf

Women, Gender and Sexuality in China: A Brief History serves as a focal textbook for undergraduate courses on women, gender, and sexuality in Chinese history. Thematically structured, it surveys important aspects of gender systems and gender practices throughout Chinese history, from the earliest period to the modern era. Topics include the concept of yin-yang, life course and gender roles, kinship systems and family structure, marriage practices, sexuality, women’s work and daily life, as well as gender in Chinese mythology, religions, medicine, art, and literature. In narrating how various traditions and practices were formed and evolved throughout Chinese history, this textbook draws heavily on personal stories and historical records. Features in this textbook include: Primary source sections for each chapter, introducing students to types of documents that have been used by scholars in conducting research Thirty-three translated texts of various genres, including epitaph, bronze inscription, medical text, imperial edict, legal case, family letter, ghost story, divorce paper, poetry, autobiography, etc. Dedicated biography sections for five distinguished women Offering richly layered accounts of women, gender, and sexuality, this textbook is essential reading for students of Chinese history, gender in world history, or the comparative history of gender.

Author : Weijing Lu
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295749136

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Arranged Companions by Weijing Lu Pdf

Although commonly associated with patriarchal oppression, arranged marriages have adapted over the centuries to changing cultural norms and the lived experiences of men and women. In Arranged Companions, historian Weijing Lu chronicles how marital behaviors during the early and High Qing (mid-seventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries) were informed by rich and complex traditions and mediated by the historical conditions of the period, during which marital affection was celebrated as a basic ingredient of an ideal marriage. Lu finds public representation and private communication of marital affection in personal records, including poetry, biographies, letters, and memoirs. During this unique historical moment, ideals of marital companionship and love came to fruition while social changes also created new tensions for couples and extended families. Offering surprising revelations about conjugal relations during this time of change, Arranged Companions raises provocative questions about the cultural construction of intimacy and the meaning of a “happy marriage.”

Author : Jiegang Gu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018258983

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The Autobiography of a Chinese Historian by Jiegang Gu Pdf

Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317817161

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Encyclopedia of Chinese History by Michael Dillon Pdf

China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to China to study, for business or for tourism has increased dramatically and there has been a corresponding increase in interest in Chinese culture, society and economy and increasing coverage of contemporary China in the media. Our understanding of China’s history has also been evolving. The study of history in the People’s Republic of China during the Mao Zedong period was strictly regulated and primary sources were rarely available to westerners or even to most Chinese historians. Now that the Chinese archives are open to researchers, there is a growing body of academic expertise on history in China that is open to western analysis and historical methods. This has in many ways changed the way that Chinese history, particularly the modern period, is viewed. The Encyclopedia of Chinese History covers the entire span of Chinese history from the period known primarily through archaeology to the present day. Treating Chinese history in the broadest sense, the Encyclopedia includes coverage of the frontier regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet that have played such an important role in the history of China Proper and will also include material on Taiwan, and on the Chinese diaspora. In A-Z format with entries written by experts in the field of Chinese Studies, the Encyclopedia will be an invaluable resource for students of Chinese history, politics and culture.

Author : Jeehee Hong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
ISBN : 0824868684

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Theater of the Dead by Jeehee Hong Pdf

Author : Benjamin Penny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136113864

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Religion and Biography in China and Tibet by Benjamin Penny Pdf

The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primary historiographical and literary genre. This volume analyses biographies as texts, taking seriously the literary turn in historical and religious studies and applying some of its insights to an understudied but central corpus of material in Chinese and Tibetan religion.

Author : Sangzhang Juan
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921816888

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Funeral by Sangzhang Juan Pdf

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 : Nicolas Tackett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196773

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The Origins of the Chinese Nation by Nicolas Tackett Pdf

Nicolas Tackett explores the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127).

Author : Sue Fawn Chung,Priscilla Wegars
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0759107343

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Chinese American Death Rituals by Sue Fawn Chung,Priscilla Wegars Pdf

They have looked to individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment for this resolution. This volume expertly describes and analyzes cultural retention and transformation in the after-death rituals of Chinese American communities."--Jacket.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111190228

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Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative perspectives on often neglected literary, philosophical, historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge, and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and trade, for instance, global connections were established and maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed in many literatures indicate how much pre-modern people actually shared. But we also discover hard-core facts of global economic exchange, import of exotic medicine, and, on another level, intensive intellectual debates on religious issues. Literary evidence serves best to expose the extent to which contacts with people in foreign countries were imaginable, often desirable, and at times feared, of course. The pre-modern world was much more on the move and reached out to distant lands out of curiosity, economic interests, and political and military concerns. Diplomats crisscrossed the continents, and artists, poets, and craftsmen traveled widely. We can identify, for instance, both the Vikings and the Arabs as global players long before the rise of modern globalism, so this volume promises to rewrite many of our traditional notions about pre-modern worldviews, economic conditions, and the literary sharing on a global level, as perhaps best expressed by the genre of the fable.