Of Body and Brush
Subtitle: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in Eighteenth-Century China
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780226987286
Subjects: Anthropology; Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Customs; Oriental religions; Religious rites & ceremonies; China - History; Political Anthropology; History; Archaeology / Anthropology; History: World; Anthropology - General; Asia - China; Social Science / Anthropology / General; 18th century; China; Imperialism; Politics and government; Rites and ceremonies
First sentence: In the many portraits that survive, the Qianlong emperor appears in various guises.