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Chu Hsi's Family Rituals - A Twelfth-Century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rites (Hardcover)
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Chu Hsi's Family Rituals - A Twelfth-Century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rites (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Library of Asian Translations
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Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi
(1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manual for the private
performance of the standard Chinese family rituals: initiations,
weddings, funerals, and sacrifices to ancestral spirits. This
translation makes the work, which is the most important text of its
kind in the last thousand years of Chinese history, fully
accessible to scholars and students in a wide range of fields. The
militantly Confucian Family Rituals was designed to combat the
practices of Buddhist and other non-Confucian rites, and it was
quickly recognized as the standard authority by the state, the
educated elite, and even by many uneducated commoners. With the
spread of Neo-Confucianism, it was honored also in Vietnam, Korea,
and Japan. Patricia Buckley Ebrey has added notes showing how the
Family Rituals enhances our understanding of Chinese society and
culture. She cites many of the commentaries on the work to give a
sense of its uses in the centuries after its publication.
Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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