Of Body and Brush
Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in Eighteenth-Century China
332 pages, 12 halftones, 25 line drawings 6 x 9
©
1997
Cloth $59.00
ISBN: 9780226987286
Published February 1998
Paper $24.00
ISBN: 9780226987293
Published February 1997
List of Illustrations Prologue: Clothing, Carrying, and Codifying Abbreviations Introduction Pt. 1: Ruling Boundaries 1: Signifying Emperorship: Of Portraits and Princes 2: Method, Monarchy, and Ritual Pt. 2: Text: Editing the Ritual Corpus 3: Classifying Li: Time and Agency 4: Writing the Ritualist Metaphysics: Self and World Pt. 3: Performance: The Ritualizing Body Inscribes 5: Sacrificial Spaces: Contextualizing the City 6: Cosmic Preparation: Orders of Knowledge 7: Filial Ceremony: Centering 8: The Politics of Boundary: Inscription and Incorporation Notes Glossary of Chinese Characters References Index
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