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  • The politics of mourning in early China
    Brown, Miranda
    This book reevaluates the longstanding assumptions about early imperial political culture. According to most explanations, filial piety served as the linchpin of the social and political order, as ... all political relations were a seamless extension of the relationship between father and son-a relationship that was hierarchical, paternalistic, and personal. Offering a new perspective on the mourning practices and funerary monuments of the Han dynasty, the author asks whether the early imperial elite did in fact imagine political participation solely along the lines of the father-son relationship or whether there were alternative visions of political association. The early imperial elite held remarkably varied and contradictory beliefs about political life, and they had multiple templates and changing scripts for political action. This book documents and explains such diversity and variation and shows that the Han dynasty practice of mourning expressed many visions of political life, visions that left lasting legacies
    Type of material - book ; adult, serious
    Publication and manufacture - Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, cop. 2007
    Language - english
    ISBN - 978-0-7914-7157-9; 978-0-7914-7158-6
    COBISS.SI-ID - 69794402

Library Call number – location, accession no. ... Copy status
Faculty of Arts, Lj. OHK - Azijske študije
 K 2 BROWN M. The politics
available - outside loan, loan period: 1 months
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