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Public memory in early China
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- Creator
- K.E. Brashier
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, Chinese
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
- Physical Details
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- viii, 511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 067449203X, 9780674492035, 9781684170753, 1684170753
- OCLC
- ocn861478390, on1132226987, ocn956712075
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Some text also in Chinese.
- Introduction : han memorial culture -- "Repeated inking" and the backdrop of a manuscript culture -- "Continuous chanting" and the backdrop of an oral performance culture -- Inking and chanting share their secret of longevity -- The ancestor's given names as locative markers -- The ancestor's surname as a spatial marker -- Following the named lineage back through time -- The age of childhood -- The age of adulthood -- The age of advanced years -- The age of death -- The age of afterlife -- Weakening personal agency -- Strengthening interpersonal bonds -- A dynamic relationship net -- Calling cards and the trafficking of names -- The ancestral shrine and its tools of remembrance -- The cemetery and its tools of remembrance -- Commemorative portraiture as a tool of remembrance -- Reduction -- Conversion -- Association
Subjects
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- China -- History -- To 1500.
- Burial -- China -- History -- To 1500.
- Collective memory -- China -- History -- To 1500.
- Memorials -- Chinese -- History -- To 1500.
- Inscriptions, Chinese.
- China -- History -- Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C.
- China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.