Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: Oct 02, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780674976955
Description: "Traces the rise of poetry from eulogies in BCE excavated texts and outlines the evolution of musical performance within and away from the context of ancestor worship. Compares the rhetoric of bronze inscriptions with later uses of similar terms in newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period"--
Notes: Source title: Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)