The writing of weddings in middle-period China : text and ritual practice in the eighth through fourteenth centuries
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The writing of weddings in middle-period China : text and ritual practice in the eighth through fourteenth centuries
（SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture）
State University of New York Press, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-355) and index
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Contents of Works
- Introduction: The practice of the text
- Ritual manuals : exegetical hermeneutics and the re-embodiment of antiquity
- Wedding correspondence and nuptial songs : writing as cultural capital and text as ritual object
- Calendars, almanacs, miracle tales, and medical texts : cosmic cycles and the liminal affairs of man
- Legal codes, verdicts, and contracts : universal order and local practice
- Conclusion: Texts and tombs, ritual and history
