Public Memory in Early China.
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Boston : BRILL, 2014. |
Series: | Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser.
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Public Memory in Early China
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Conventions
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: Han memorial culture
- SECTION 1: "Repeated Inking" and the backdrop of a manuscript culture
- SECTION 2: "Continuous Chanting" and the backdrop of an oral performance culture
- SECTION 3: Inking and Chanting share their secret of longevity
- PART I: Names as positioning the self
- SECTION 4: The ancestor's given names as locative markers
- SECTION 5: The ancestor's surname as a spatial marker
- SECTION 6: Following the named lineage back through time
- PART II: Age as positioning the self
- SECTION 7: The age of childhood
- SECTION 8: The age of adulthood
- SECTION 9: The age of advanced years
- SECTION 10: The age of death
- SECTION 11: The age of afterlife
- PART III: Kinship as positioning the self
- SECTION 12: Weakening personal agency
- SECTION 13: Strengthening interpersonal bonds
- SECTION 14: A dynamic relationship net
- PART IV: The tangible tools of positioning the self
- SECTION 15: Calling cards and the trafficking of names
- SECTION 16: The ancestral shrine and its tools of remembrance
- SECTION 17: The cemetery and its tools of remembrance
- SECTION 18: Commemorative portraiture as a tool of remembrance
- PART V: The intangible tools of positioning the self
- SECTION 19: Reduction
- SECTION 20: Conversion
- SECTION 21: Association
- Conclusion: "Here is where the Earl of Shao rested"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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