Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China (Harvard East Asian Monographs): 315 (Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP))

by David Johnson (Author), David Johnson (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2010

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  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.