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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



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. vii*TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE, pg. ix*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION, pg. xiii*PREFACE, pg. 1*CHAPTER ONE: General Principles of Ritual, pg. 5*CHAPTER TWO: The Capping Ceremony, pg. 35*CHAPTER THREE: Weddings, pg. 48*CHAPTER FOUR: Funerals, pg. 65*CHAPTER FIVE: Sacrificial Rites, pg. 153*APPENDIX A: Editions of Chu Hsi's, pg. 179*APPENDIX B: Chinese Text of Chu Hsi's, pg. 183*GLOSSARY, pg. 213*SOURCES CITED, pg. 221*INDEX, pg. 229

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691605289, 978-0691605289
      ISBN10: 0691605289
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      Book Synopsis

      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



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. vii*TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE, pg. ix*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION, pg. xiii*PREFACE, pg. 1*CHAPTER ONE: General Principles of Ritual, pg. 5*CHAPTER TWO: The Capping Ceremony, pg. 35*CHAPTER THREE: Weddings, pg. 48*CHAPTER FOUR: Funerals, pg. 65*CHAPTER FIVE: Sacrificial Rites, pg. 153*APPENDIX A: Editions of Chu Hsi's, pg. 179*APPENDIX B: Chinese Text of Chu Hsi's, pg. 183*GLOSSARY, pg. 213*SOURCES CITED, pg. 221*INDEX, pg. 229

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