Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China

by David George Johnson

This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674033043
• ISBN13: 9780674033047
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.3"