Ancestral memory in early China /
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| Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | Doris F. Condon Library Fund (Wellesley College Library) |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2011. |
| Series: | Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
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| Local Note: | Gift of the Doris F. Condon Library Fund. |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Tables and Figures
- Conventions
- Introduction: The Han tree of knowledge
- Section 1. Connecting Han idea systems
- Section 2. Metaphors they lived by
- Section 3. Modifying our approach to the ancestral cults
- Part I. An imaginary yardstick for ritual performance
- Section 4. Ritual texts as performance scripts
- Section 5. The experience of performance
- Section 6. The framing techniques of performance
- Section 7. The microcosm created by performance
- Section 8. Do we trust these ritual prescriptions?
- Part II. A history of remembering and forgetting imperial ancestors
- Section 9. The Second Emperor of Qin's ritually correct shrine (209 BCE)
- Section 10. The ancestral perpetuity of Emperor Wen (157 BCE)
- Section 11. Emperor Wu's wine-tribute scandal (112 BCE)
- Section 12. Emperor Xuan's sacrifice to his ôancestorsö (65 BCE)
- Section 13. Kuang Heng's support for a closed system of worship (48-43 BCE)
- Section 14. Opposition to a closed system of worship (6-1 BCE)
- Section 15. The ancestral shrine of Wang Mang (20 CE)
- Section 16. The Guangwu Restoration and shrine reconfiguration (43 CE)
- Section 17. The imperial mourning shed of Chancellor Jing (143 CE)
- Section 18. Empress Liang's attempt to rearrange the ancestral order (145 CE)
- Section 19. The court's debate on remembering Empress Dou (172 CE)
- Section 20. Reform in the waning Han (190 CE)
- Section 21. The Wei Dynasty's resurrection of the Zhou ideal (237 CE)
- Part III. A spectrum of interpretations on afterlife existence
- Section 22. The do ut des relationship
- Section 23. The sincere sacrificer
- Section 24. The mental bridge between sacrificer and sacrifice recipient
- Section 25. The thought-full sacrifice recipient
- Section 26. The complete denial of ancestral existence
- Part IV. The context of early Chinese performative thinking
- Section 27. The Han theory of performative thinking
- Section 28. The Han application of performative thinking
- Part V. The symbolic language of fading memories
- Section 29. The symbol cluster of darkness on the edge
- Section 30. The symbol cluster of light in the center
- Section 31. Acknowledging the gray in-between
- Conclusion
- Reference Matter
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
