Chinese Funerary Biographies

Chinese Funerary Biographies
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9780295746425
ISBN-13 : 0295746424
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Book Synopsis Chinese Funerary Biographies by : Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Download or read book Chinese Funerary Biographies written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased’s biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors’ longing for the dead. These epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children—people who are not well documented in more conventional sources such as dynastic histories and local gazetteers. This anthology of translations makes available funerary biographies covering nearly two thousand years, from the Han dynasty through the nineteenth century, selected for their value as teaching material for courses in Chinese history, literature, and women’s studies as well as world history. Because they include revealing details about personal conduct, families, local conditions, and social, cultural, and religious practices, these epitaphs illustrate ways of thinking and the realities of daily life. Most can be read and analyzed on multiple levels, and they stimulate investigation of topics such as the emotional tenor of family relations, rituals associated with death, Confucian values, women’s lives as written about by men, and the use of sources assumed to be biased. These biographies will be especially effective when combined with more readily available primary sources such as official documents, religious and intellectual discourses, and anecdotal stories, promising to generate provocative discussion of literary genre, the ways historians use sources, and how writers shape their accounts.


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