Chu hsi's family rituals: a twelfth-century chinese manual for the performance of cappings, weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites
Auteur :
Hsi, Chu
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691634265
Date de publication :
19 avr. 2016
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
539 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 Chin