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Angela Zito

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
Subjects



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