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

Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
286
ISBN
9780691635354

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

Patricia Buckley Ebrey

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

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