Format:
1 online resource (381 pages)
ISBN:
9780791480151
Series Statement:
SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Content:
Intro -- The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: The Practice of the Text -- THE PRACTICE OF THE CLASSICALTEXT: THE WRITING OF WEDDINGS IN THE MIDDLE PERIOD -- THE PRACTICE OF THE ACADEMIC TEXT:THE WRITING OF WEDDINGS IN MODERN AND POSTMODERN HISTORY -- 1. Ritual Manuals: Exegetical Hermeneutics and the Re-Embodiment of Antiquity -- CANONICAL WEDDINGS:FRAGMENTS AND HERMENEUTICS -- RITES OF THE KAIYUAN PERIOD:THE MERGING OF CANON AND PRECEDENT -- MANUALS OF LETTERS AND CEREMONIES:THE HERMENEUTICS OF PRACTICE AND THE PRESERVATION OF RITUAL -- THE HERMENEUTICAL SHIFT IN THE NORTHERN SONG:EPIGRAPHY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND THE IDENTITY OF PAST AND PRESENT -- RITUAL MANUALS OF THE NORTHERN SONG:THE HERMENEUTICS OF TEXT AND THE EMBODIMENT OF ANTIQUITY -- TOWARD A NEW RITUAL SCRIPTURE:ZHU XI'S FAMILY RITUALS -- CONCLUSION -- 2. Wedding Correspondence and Nuptial Songs: Writing as Cultural Capital and Text as Ritual Object -- CULTURAL CAPITAL AND THE INSCRIPTION OF RITUAL TIME IN WEDDING CORRESPONDENCE -- SOCIAL BOUNDARIES AND SYMBOLIC CAPITAL IN WRITING MANUALS -- RITUAL TIME AND SEXUAL METAPHORS IN WEDDING ADDRESSES, POEMS, AND JOKES -- CONCLUSION -- 3. Calendars, Almanacs, Miracle Tales,and Medical Texts: Cosmic Cycles and the Liminal Affairs of Man -- PATTERNS OF AUSPICIOUS AND INAUSPICIOUS TIME IN CALENDARS -- THE CALCULATION OF COSMIC BLESSINGS AND DANGERS IN ALMANACS -- THE BLESSINGS AND DANGERS OF WEDDINGS IN MIRACLE TALES -- THE VULNERABLE AND DANGEROUS BODY OF THE BRIDE IN MIRACLE TALES AND MEDICAL TEXTS -- CONCLUSION -- 4. Legal Codes, Verdicts, and Contracts: Universal Order and Local Practice -- MARRIAGE AND THE UNIVERSAL ORDER:THE ANNOTATED TANG CODE AND THE SONG PENAL CODE -- UNIVERSAL LAW AND LOCAL PRACTICE:A COLLECTION OF PURE AND LUCID VERDICTS.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780791470732
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780791470732
Language:
English
