| New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times Contributor(s): Aijmer, Göran (Author) |
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ISBN: 9629960249 ISBN-13: 9789629960247 Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: Keenly attuned to the play of symbols, this anthropological study explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradition: the celebration of lunar the New Year. It analyzes a multitude of folk practices within a holistic perspective on Chinese traditional society, crafting a new picture of a world in which the social rhetoric of gender, lineage continuity, and ancestry were challenged by ritual manifestations of iconic symbolism. Viewed through the lens of Chinese imagery, the traditional calendar reveals new stories about the social organization of time as an expression of existential concerns in late imperial Chinese social life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 394 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 150 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese - Holiday - New Year's |