Traditional Chinese Rites And Rituals

Author : Zhengming Du
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443887830

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Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals by Zhengming Du Pdf

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 : Feng Ge,杜争鸣,黄洁婷,蒋茵佶
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 7508520165

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Chinese Rites and Rituals by Feng Ge,杜争鸣,黄洁婷,蒋茵佶 Pdf

Author : Joseph P. McDermott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521621577

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State and Court Ritual in China by Joseph P. McDermott Pdf

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.

Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400862351

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Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey Pdf

To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian texts on family rituals were written, circulated, interpreted, and used as guides to action. Weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites were central features of Chinese culture; they gave drama to transitions in people's lives and conveyed conceptions of the hierarchy of society and the interdependency of the living and the dead. Patricia Ebrey's social history of Confucian texts shows much about how Chinese culture was created in a social setting, through the participation of people at all social levels. Books, like Chu Hsi's Family Rituals and its dozens of revisions, were important in forming ritual behavior in China because of the general respect for literature, the early spread of printing, and the absence of an ecclesiastic establishment authorized to rule on the acceptability of variations in ritual behavior. Ebrey shows how more and more of what people commonly did was approved in the liturgies and thus brought into the realm labeled Confucian. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Hongfan Yang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004501027

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Ite missa est—Ritual Interactions around Mass in Chinese Society (1583–1720) by Hongfan Yang Pdf

The first book dedicated to the propagation of the Mass in late Imperial China unfolds dynamic interactions between this essential Catholic ritual and various cultural expressions in Chinese society, including traditional religion, architecture, art, literature, government, and theology.

Author : David E. Mungello,David Emil Mungello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131314929

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The Chinese Rites Controversy by David E. Mungello,David Emil Mungello Pdf

This collection presents the proceedings of an international conference on the significance of the Rites Controversy in Sino-Western history, held in San Francisco in 1992. It contains fifteen articles by contemporary mainstream China scholars from four continents, including some of the most eminent names in Sinology today.

Author : Nicolas Standaert
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295800042

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The Interweaving of Rituals by Nicolas Standaert Pdf

The death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of European rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest and also of Chinese rituals appropriate to the country hosting the Jesuit community. Rather than burying Ricci immediately in a plain coffin near the church, according to their European practice, the Jesuits followed Chinese custom and kept Ricci's body for nearly a year in an air-tight Chinese-style coffin and asked the emperor for burial ground outside the city walls. Moreover, at Ricci's funeral itself, on their own initiative the Chinese performed their funerary rituals, thus starting a long and complex cultural dialogue in which they took the lead during the next century. The Interweaving of Rituals explores the role of ritual - specifically rites related to death and funerals - in cross-cultural exchange, demonstrating a gradual interweaving of Chinese and European ritual practices at all levels of interaction in seventeenth-century China. This includes the interplay of traditional and new rituals by a Christian community of commoners, the grafting of Christian funerals onto established Chinese practices, and the sponsorship of funeral processions for Jesuit officials by the emperor. Through careful observation of the details of funerary practice, Nicolas Standaert illustrates the mechanics of two-way cultural interaction. His thoughtful analysis of the ritual exchange between two very different cultural traditions is especially relevant in today's world of global ethnic and religious tension. His insights will be of interest to a broad range of scholars, from historians to anthropologists to theologians.

Author : Bell Yung,Evelyn Sakakida Rawski
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804726580

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Harmony and Counterpoint by Bell Yung,Evelyn Sakakida Rawski Pdf

This volume of nine essays draws together leading scholars in anthropology, social history, musicology, and ethnomusicology to address the roles and functions of music in the Chinese ritual context. How does music, one of a constellation of essential performative elements in almost all rituals, empower an officiant, legitimate an officeholder, create a heightened state of awareness, convey a message, or produce a magical outcome, a transition, a transformation? After an introduction by the volume editors, Bell Yung proposes a theoretical framework for dealing with Chinese ritual sound. A group of three essays focuses on the music for rituals that create political and social legitimacy followed by a second group of essays considering the music associated with rites of passage. Two essays then deal with the music accompanying rituals of propitiation. In all these cases, music is seen to play a critical role, if not the core of the ritual.

Author : Xiaoqun Wu
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9811344663

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Mourning Rituals in Archaic & Classical Greece and Pre-Qin China by Xiaoqun Wu Pdf

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 : William Lakos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443825283

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Chinese Ancestor Worship by William Lakos Pdf

This book is a new approach to how we in the West understand China and Chinese culture. It challenges the master narrative of Confucianism and shows that ancestor worship has underpinned Chinese culture in many influential and vital ways and provides a nuanced and more efficacious paradigm through which Chinese culture may be viewed. It is an exposition and analysis of Chinese ancestor worship and its correlations, especially filial piety and ritual, and it shows the intrinsic importance of ancestor worship to Chinese culture. By using a practice theory—ritual—and communication theory approach this work highlights the relationship between the rituals of ancestor worship and their meaning within Chinese culture. In emphasizing the efficacy of ritual to cultural meaning it also questions and compares the master narrative of Confucianism in its role as the prime cultural symbol and paradigm of Chinese culture. China and Chinese culture is conventionally understood by the West through the paradigm and its articulated discourse of Confucianism. In order to ameliorate and overcome the epistemological problematic of a cross-cultural understanding of China, a new approach to the understanding of China and Chinese culture is proposed. The thesis approach is ‘meta-disciplinary’ and multi-viewed, and draws on a range of evidence and theories which focus on the problematic of ‘cross-cultural understanding.’

Author : James L. Watson,Evelyn S. Rawski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0520071298

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Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China by James L. Watson,Evelyn S. Rawski Pdf

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 : Kenneth Dean
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400863402

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Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China by Kenneth Dean Pdf

Most commentators imagine contemporary China to be monolithic, atheistic, and materialist, and wholly divorced from its earlier customs, but Kenneth Dean combines evidence from historical texts and extensive fieldwork to reveal an entirely different picture. Since 1979, when the Chinese government relaxed some of its most stringent controls on religion, villagers in the isolated areas of Southeast China have maintained an "underground" effort to restore traditional rituals and local cults. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Macabe Keliher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520971769

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The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China by Macabe Keliher Pdf

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.

Author : Sue Fawn Chung,Priscilla Wegars
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759114623

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

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 : Yonghua Liu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004257252

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Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers by Yonghua Liu Pdf

In Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers, Yonghua Liu presents a detailed study of how a southeastern Chinese community experienced and responded to the process whereby Confucian rituals - previously thought unfit for practice by commoners - were adopted in the Chinese countryside and became an integral part of village culture, from the mid fourteenth to mid twentieth centuries. The book examines the important but understudied ritual specialists, masters of rites (lisheng), and their ritual handbooks while showing their crucial role in the ritual life of Chinese villagers. This discussion of lisheng and their rituals deepens our understanding of the ritual aspect of popular Confucianism and sheds new light on social and cultural transformations in late imperial China.