Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites

by Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Book Overview

To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian texts on family rituals were written, circulated, interpreted, and used as guides to action. Weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites were central features of Chinese culture; they gave drama to transitions in people's lives and conveyed conceptions of the hierarchy of society and the interdependency...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691635358
• ISBN13: 9780691635354
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"