The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China
Author | : Christian de Pee |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0791480151 |
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.