附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
The structure of Chinese funerary rites: elementary forms, ritual sequence, and the primacy of performance / James L. Watson -- A historian's approach to Chinese death ritual / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Funerals in North China: uniformity and variation / Susan Naquin -- Death, food, and fertility / Stuart E. Thompson -- Funeral specialists in Cantonese society: pollution, performance, and social hierarchy / James L. Watson -- Grieving for the dead, grieving for the living: funeral laments of Hakka women / Elizabeth L. Johnson -- Gender and ideological differences in representations of life and death / Emily Martin -- Souls and salvation: conflicting themes in Chinese popular religion / Myron L. Cohen -- Remembering the dead: graves and politics in Southeastern China / Rubie S. Watson -- The imperial way of death: Ming and Ch'ing emperors and death ritual / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Mao's remains / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- Death in the People's Republic of China / Martin K. Whyte.
摘要:During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture. - Publisher's description.
