Death Rituals And Politics In Northern Song China

The adaptation of ancestral ritual to serve the royal imaginary -- How does heaven come to speak?: the contesting discourse and the revival of Confucian death rituals -- Ordering society through Confucian rituals -- Offering for saving of the souls -- Social imaginaries and politics in the narratives on the world-beyond and the supernatural -- Burial: a contested site for social imaginaries

• | Author: Mihwa Choi
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 02, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 249 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 019045976X
• | ISBN-13: 9780190459765