The Writing of Weddings in Middle Period China
Subtitle: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth Through Fourteenth Centuries (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: April 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780791470732
Subjects: Customs; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; History - General History; History: World; Asia - China; Medieval; Weddings; China; Marriage customs and rites; Weddings in literature
Description: "Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only recovers elements of the ritual practice of Middle-Period weddings, but also reassesses the relationship between texts and the Middle-Period past. Its fourfold narrative of the writing of weddings and its spirited engagement with the texts - ritual manuals, engagement letters, nuptial songs, calendars and almanacs, and legal texts - offer a form and style for a cultural history that accommodates the particularities of the sources of the Chinese imperial past."--BOOK JACKET.