Of Body and Brush
Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in Eighteenth-Century China

332 pages
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12 halftones, 25 line drawings
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6 x 9
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© 1997
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Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Prologue: Clothing, Carrying, and Codifying
Abbreviations
Introduction
Pt. 1: Ruling Boundaries
1: Signifying Emperorship: Of Portraits and Princes
2: Method, Monarchy, and Ritual
Pt. 2: Text: Editing the Ritual Corpus
3: Classifying Li: Time and Agency
4: Writing the Ritualist Metaphysics: Self and World
Pt. 3: Performance: The Ritualizing Body Inscribes
5: Sacrificial Spaces: Contextualizing the City
6: Cosmic Preparation: Orders of Knowledge
7: Filial Ceremony: Centering
8: The Politics of Boundary: Inscription and Incorporation
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
References
Index
Prologue: Clothing, Carrying, and Codifying
Abbreviations
Introduction
Pt. 1: Ruling Boundaries
1: Signifying Emperorship: Of Portraits and Princes
2: Method, Monarchy, and Ritual
Pt. 2: Text: Editing the Ritual Corpus
3: Classifying Li: Time and Agency
4: Writing the Ritualist Metaphysics: Self and World
Pt. 3: Performance: The Ritualizing Body Inscribes
5: Sacrificial Spaces: Contextualizing the City
6: Cosmic Preparation: Orders of Knowledge
7: Filial Ceremony: Centering
8: The Politics of Boundary: Inscription and Incorporation
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
References
Index
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