Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China
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- ISBN 9780791470732
- Weight: 635g
- Publication Date: 05 Apr 2007
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A groundbreaking work that treats writing as a ritual practice and texts as ritual objects.
Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only recovers elements of the ritual practice of Middle-Period weddings, but also reassesses the relationship between texts and the Middle-Period past. Its fourfold narrative of the writing of weddings and its spirited engagement with the texts-ritual manuals, engagement letters, nuptial songs, calendars and almanacs, and legal texts-offer a form and style for a cultural history that accommodates the particularities of the sources of the Chinese imperial past.
Christian de Pee is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
