Chinese American Death Rituals
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Author | : Sue Fawn Chung |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2005-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0759114625 |
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Death is a topic that has fascinated people for centuries. In the English-speaking world, eulogies in poetic form could be traced back to the 1640s, but gained prominence with the 'graveyard school' of poets in the eighteenth century often stressing the finality of death. Chinese American Death Rituals examines Chinese American funerary rituals and cemeteries from the late nineteenth century until the present in order to understand the importance of Chinese funerary rites and their transformation through time. The authors in this volume discuss the meaning of funerary rituals and their normative dimension and the social practices that have been influenced by tradition. Shaped by individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment, Chinese Americans have resolved the tensions between assimilation into the mainstream culture and their strong Chinese heritage in a variety of ways. This volume expertly describes and analyzes Chinese American cultural retention and transformation in rituals after death.
Author | : James L. Watson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780520060814 |
Download Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.
Author | : James L. Watson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520071298 |
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During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.
Author | : Eileen Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
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A brief comparison of the rituals and ceremonies surrounding death and funerals in China and the United States.
Author | : Gail Rubin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780984596201 |
Download A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rubin provides the information, inspiration, and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful, and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and pets.
Author | : Colin Renfrew |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107082730 |
Download Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.
Author | : Sue Fawn Chung |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780759107342 |
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They have looked to individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment for this resolution. This volume expertly describes and analyzes cultural retention and transformation in the after-death rituals of Chinese American communities."--Jacket.
Author | : Tong Chee Kiong |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135798435 |
Download Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it suggests that there is an underlying logic to the rituals. This in turn leads Kiong to examine the interrelationship between death and the socioeconomic value system of China as a whole.
Author | : Mihwa Choi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190459786 |
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In traditional China, a funeral and the accompanying death rituals represented a critical moment for the immediate family of the deceased to show their filial piety, a core value of the society. At the same time, death rituals were social occasions, and channels for the outward demonstration of belief in a religiously pluralistic society. During the Northern Song period, however, death rituals increasingly became an arena for political contention as attempts were made to transform these practices from a private matter into one subject to state control. Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China examines how political confrontations over the proper conduct of death rituals during Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) inaugurated a period of Confucian revivalism. Mihwa Choi interprets Northern Song court politics, family ritual practices, burial practices, and the popular imagination of the afterlife as sites of contest between groups of varying social status, political vision, and religious belief. She demonstrates that the oversight of ritual affairs by scholar-officials helped them gain the political upper hand they sought, and, more broadly, fostered a revival of Confucianism as the dominant value system of Chinese society in the period that followed.
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Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Bereavement |
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