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.
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9781400862351
Publisert
2014
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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