دانلود کتاب Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China, The Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries

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Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction: The Practice of the Text......Page 16
THE PRACTICE OF THE CLASSICAL TEXT: THE WRITING OF WEDDINGS IN THE MIDDLE PERIOD......Page 17
THE PRACTICE OF THE ACADEMIC TEXT: THE WRITING OF WEDDINGS IN MODERN AND POSTMODERN HISTORY......Page 29
1. Ritual Manuals: Exegetical Hermeneutics and the Re-Embodiment of Antiquity......Page 36
CANONICAL WEDDINGS: FRAGMENTS AND HERMENEUTICS......Page 42
RITES OF THE KAIYUAN PERIOD: THE MERGING OF CANON AND PRECEDENT......Page 49
MANUALS OF LETTERS AND CEREMONIES: THE HERMENEUTICS OF PRACTICE AND THE PRESERVATION OF RITUAL......Page 54
THE HERMENEUTICAL SHIFT IN THE NORTHERN SONG: EPIGRAPHY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND THE IDENTITY OF PAST AND PRESENT......Page 60
RITUAL MANUALS OF THE NORTHERN SONG: THE HERMENEUTICS OF TEXT AND THE EMBODIMENT OF ANTIQUITY......Page 65
TOWARD A NEW RITUAL SCRIPTURE: ZHU XI’S FAMILY RITUALS......Page 87
CONCLUSION......Page 96
2. Wedding Correspondence and Nuptial Songs: Writing as Cultural Capital and Text as Ritual Object......Page 104
CULTURAL CAPITAL AND THE INSCRIPTION OF RITUAL TIME IN WEDDING CORRESPONDENCE......Page 108
SOCIAL BOUNDARIES AND SYMBOLIC CAPITAL IN WRITING MANUALS......Page 119
RITUAL TIME AND SEXUAL METAPHORS IN WEDDING ADDRESSES, POEMS, AND JOKES......Page 131
CONCLUSION......Page 146
3. Calendars, Almanacs, Miracle Tales, and Medical Texts: Cosmic Cycles and the Liminal Affairs of Man......Page 152
PATTERNS OF AUSPICIOUS AND INAUSPICIOUS TIME IN CALENDARS......Page 162
THE CALCULATION OF COSMIC BLESSINGS AND DANGERS IN ALMANACS......Page 167
THE BLESSINGS AND DANGERS OF WEDDINGS IN MIRACLE TALES......Page 179
THE VULNERABLE AND DANGEROUS BODY OF THE BRIDE IN MIRACLE TALES AND MEDICAL TEXTS......Page 183
CONCLUSION......Page 189
4. Legal Codes, Verdicts, and Contracts: Universal Order and Local Practice......Page 194
MARRIAGE AND THE UNIVERSAL ORDER: THE ANNOTATED TANG CODE AND THE SONG PENAL CODE......Page 202
UNIVERSAL LAW AND LOCAL PRACTICE: A COLLECTION OF PURE AND LUCID VERDICTS......Page 206
INTERFERENCE WITH RITUAL PRACTICE: IMPERIAL CANON OF SACRED GOVERNANCE AND COMPREHENSIVE INSTITUTIONS......Page 216
CONCLUSION......Page 227
Conclusion: Texts and Tombs, Ritual and History......Page 236
THE PRACTICE OF THE TOMB: MATERIAL TRACES OF RITUAL......Page 243
THE PRACTICE OF THE TEXT: WRITTEN TRACES OF RITUAL......Page 257
THE PRACTICE OF HISTORY: TOWARD A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE PERIOD......Page 261
Glossary......Page 266
Notes......Page 272
Bibliography......Page 332
B......Page 372
D......Page 373
H......Page 374
L......Page 375
M......Page 376
S......Page 377
V......Page 378
W......Page 379
Z......Page 380