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

Zito, Angela

 
9780226987293: Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in Eighteenth-Century China
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226987299 ISBN 13: 9780226987293
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of eighteenth-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and above all how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. In Of Body and Brush, Angela Zito offers a stunningly original analysis of the way ritualizing power was produced jointly by the throne and the official literati who dictated these prescriptions.

Forging a critical cultural historical method that challenges traditional categories of Chinese studies, Zito shows for the first time that in their performance, the ritual texts embodied, literally, the metaphysics upon which imperial power rested. By combining rule through the brush (the production of ritual texts) with rule through the body (mandated performance), the throne both exhibited its power and attempted to control resistance to it. Bridging Chinese history, anthropology, religion, and performance and cultural studies, Zito brings an important new perspective to the human sciences in general.

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Angela Zito is assistant professor of religion at Barnard College of Columbia University.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226987299
ISBN 13 
9780226987293
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
332
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