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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-13 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 216
Pages: 216
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
Despite their powerful presence and exquisite quality, Chinese ancestor portraits have never been studied as a genre. This illustrated text explores the artisti
Language: en
Pages: 487
Pages: 487
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-26 - Publisher: BRILL
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 inter
Language: en
Pages: 401
Pages: 401
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-20 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a he
Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-08-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
The study of ancestor worship has an eminent pedigree in two disciplines: social anthropology and folklore (Goody 1962: 14-25; Newell 1976; Fortes 1976; Takeda