The Shaping of the Book of Songs: From Ritualization to Secularization

by Zhi Chen and Chen Zhi

The present work is a study on the formation of the Shih-ching. The author poses the hypothesis that this collection of poems, as the standard music and literature passed down to later generations, initially incorporated different cultural heritages through a process which moved from ritualization to secularization, as well as standardization to localization.

In aiming to find the origins of the division of the Shih-ching into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3805005415
• ISBN13: 9783805005418
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.7"