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Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Spectacle and Sacrifice The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China - Harvard East Asian Monographs
Author: David Johnson
This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creati...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674033047
ISBN-10: 0674033043
Publication Date: 3/15/2010
Pages: 450
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Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Book Type: Hardcover
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