Death ritual in late imperial and modern China /

Death ritual in late imperial and modern China /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c1988.
Description:	xv, 334 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies on China 8
Subject:	Funeral rites and ceremonies -- China Funeral rites and ceremonies. China.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/938803

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Other authors / contributors:	Watson, James L. Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)
ISBN:	0520060814 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Rev. versions of papers presented at a conference held at the Sun Space Ranch Conference Center in Oracle, Ariz., Jan. 2-7, 1985 and sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

"Funerals in North China: Uniformity and Variation"
"Feeding the Dead: The Role of Food in Chinese Funerary Ritual"
"Pollution, Performance, and the Structure of Rites"
"Grieving for the Dead, Grieving for the Living: Funeral Laments of Hakka Women"
"Gender and Ideological Differences in Representations of Life and Death"
"Souls and Salvation: Conflicting Themes in Chinese Popular Religion"
Rubie S. Wa