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Inscribing Death - Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China (Paperback)
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Inscribing Death - Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China (Paperback)
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This nuanced study traces how Chinese came to view death as an
opportunity to fashion and convey social identities and memories
during the medieval period (200–1000) and the Tang dynasty
(618–907), specifically. As Chinese society became increasingly
multicultural and multireligious, to achieve these aims people
selectively adopted, portrayed, and interpreted various acts of
remembrance. Included in these were new and evolving burial,
mourning, and commemorative practices: joint-burials of spouses,
extended family members, and coreligionists; relocation and
reburial of bodies; posthumous marriage and divorce; interment of a
summoned soul in the absence of a body; and many changes to the
classical mourning and commemorative rites that became the norm
during the period. Individuals independently constructed the
socio-religious meanings of a particular death and the handling of
corpses by engaging in and reviewing acts of remembrance. Drawing
on a variety of sources, including hundreds of newly excavated
entombed epitaph inscriptions, Inscribing Death illuminates the
process through which the living—and the dead—negotiated this
multiplicity of meanings and how they shaped their memories and
identities both as individuals and as part of collectives. In
particular, it details the growing emphasis on remembrance as an
expression of filial piety and the grave as a focal point of
ancestral sacrifice. The work also identifies different modes of
construction and representation of the self in life and death,
deepening our understanding of ancestral worship and its changing
modus operandi and continuous shaping influence on the most
intimate human relationships—thus challenging the current
monolithic representation of ancestral worship as an extension of
families rather than individuals in medieval China.
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