Public Memory In Early China
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Public Memory in Early China
Author | : K. E. Brashier |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781684170753 |
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In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraordinary in his or her lifetime. Their posthumous names were chosen from a limited predetermined pool; their descriptors were derived from set phrases in the classical tradition; and their identities were explicitly categorized as being like this cultural hero or that sage official in antiquity. In other words, postmortem remembrance was a process of pouring new ancestors into prefabricated molds or stamping them with rigid cookie cutters. Public Memory in Early China is an examination of this pouring and stamping process. After surveying ways in which learning in the early imperial period relied upon memorization and recitation, K. E. Brashier treats three definitive parameters of identity—name, age, and kinship—as ways of negotiating a person’s relative position within the collective consciousness. He then examines both the tangible and intangible media responsible for keeping that defined identity welded into the infrastructure of Han public memory.
Ancestral Memory in Early China
Author | : K. E. Brashier |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Ancestor worship |
ISBN | : 0674056078 |
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Ancestral ritual in early China was an orchestrated dance between what was present (the offerings and the living) and what was absent (the ancestors). The interconnections among the tangible elements of the sacrifice were overt and almost mechanical, but extending those connections to the invisible guests required a medium that was itself invisible. Thus in early China, ancestral sacrifice was associated with focused thinking about the ancestors, with a structured mental effort by the living to reach out to the absent forebears and to give them shape and existence. Thinking about the ancestors-about those who had become distant-required active deliberation and meditation, qualities that had to be nurtured and learned. This study is a history of the early Chinese ancestral cult, particularly its cognitive aspects. Its goals are to excavate the cult's color and vitality and to quell assumptions that it was no more than a simplistic and uninspired exchange of food for longevity, of prayers for prosperity. Ancestor worship was not, the author contends, merely mechanical and thoughtless. Rather, it was an idea system that aroused serious debates about the nature of postmortem existence, served as the religious backbone to Confucianism, and may even have been the forerunner of Daoist and Buddhist meditation practices.
Ancestral Memory in Early China
Author | : K.E. Brashier |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781684170562 |
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Ancestral ritual in early China was an orchestrated dance between what was present (the offerings and the living) and what was absent (the ancestors). The interconnections among the tangible elements of the sacrifice were overt and almost mechanical, but extending those connections to the invisible guests required a medium that was itself invisible. Thus in early China, ancestral sacrifice was associated with focused thinking about the ancestors, with a structured mental effort by the living to reach out to the absent forebears and to give them shape and existence. Thinking about the ancestors—about those who had become distant—required active deliberation and meditation, qualities that had to be nurtured and learned. This study is a history of the early Chinese ancestral cult, particularly its cognitive aspects. Its goals are to excavate the cult’s color and vitality and to quell assumptions that it was no more than a simplistic and uninspired exchange of food for longevity, of prayers for prosperity. Ancestor worship was not, the author contends, merely mechanical and thoughtless. Rather, it was an idea system that aroused serious debates about the nature of postmortem existence, served as the religious backbone to Confucianism, and may even have been the forerunner of Daoist and Buddhist meditation practices.
Social Memory and State Formation in Early China
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Author | : Min Li (Anthropologist) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1316506568 |
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Honor and Shame in Early China
Author | : Mark Edward Lewis |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108843690 |
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Lewis sheds new light on the early Chinese empires through an ambitious examination of evolving ideas about honor and shame.
The Politics of the Past in Early China
Author | : Vincent S. Leung |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2019-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108425728 |
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History mattered to the political elite in ancient China. Leung explores why it was so important and to what end.
Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China
Author | : Timothy M. Davis |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2015-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004306424 |
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In Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture Timothy M. Davis explains the social, cultural, and religious significance of early medieval muzhiming —one of the most versatile and persistent commemorative forms employed in the elite burials of pre-modern China.
Memory in Medieval China Text Ritual and Community
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004368637 |
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Memory in Medieval China explores memory as performed in various genres of writing, from poetry to anecdotes, from history to tomb epitaphs, thereby illuminating ways in which the memory of persons, events, dynasties, and literary styles was constructed and revised.