Spectacle and Sacrifice

Spectacle and Sacrifice

AngličtinaPevná vazba
Johnson, David
Harvard University, Asia Center
EAN: 9780674033047
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This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described in this book were their supreme collective achievements and were carried out virtually without assistance from local officials or educated elites, clerical or lay.

Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. Festivals and their associated rituals and operas provided the emotional and intellectual materials out of which ordinary people constructed their ideas about the world of men and the realm of the gods. It is, David Johnson argues, impossible to form an adequate idea of traditional Chinese society without a thorough understanding of village ritual. Newly discovered liturgical manuscripts allow him to reconstruct North Chinese temple festivals in unprecedented detail and prove that they are sharply different from the Daoist- and Buddhist-based communal rituals of South China.

EAN 9780674033047
ISBN 0674033043
Typ produktu Pevná vazba
Vydavatel Harvard University, Asia Center
Datum vydání 1. března 2010
Stránky 450
Jazyk English
Rozměry 235 x 156
Země United States
Sekce Further/Higher Education
Autoři Johnson, David
Ilustrace 15 halftones, 2 maps
Série Harvard East Asian Monographs