Public memory in early China / K.E. Brashier.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, Chinese Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 91.Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014Distributor: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press Description: 1 online resource (viii, 511 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781684170753
- 1684170753
- 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
- Burial
- Collective memory
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Inscriptions, Chinese
- Memorials
- China
- Bestattungsritus
- Zeremonie
- Grabinschrift
- Kollektives Ged�achtnis
- Totenged�achtnis
- China
- RELIGION / Buddhism / Sacred Writings
- 393/.930951 23
- GT3283.A2 B73 2014eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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