Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China

ISBN-13: 9780674033047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 450 str.

David Johnson

Opis

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. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China.