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Title On sacred grounds : culture, society, politics, and the formation of the cult of Confucius / Thomas A. Wilson, editor
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002

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Description xiv, 424 pages : illustrations, maps, plates, music ; 24 cm
Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 217
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 217.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents pt. 1. Rites and music. Ritualizing Confucius/Kongzi: the family and state cults of the sage of culture in Imperial China / Thomas A. Wilson ; Destroying Confucius: iconoclasm in the Confucian temple / Deborah Sommer ; Musical Confucianism: the case of 'Jikong yuewu' / Joseph S.C. Lam -- pt. 2. Imagining Confucius. The genesis of Kongzi in ancient narrative: the figurative as historical / Lionel M. Jensen ; Varied views of the sage: illustrated narratives of the life of Confucius / Julia K. Murray -- pt. 3. Politics and society. The cultural politics of autocracy: the Confucius temple and Ming despotism, 1368-1530 / Huang Chin-shing ; The Kongs of Qufu: power and privilege in late Imperial China / Abigail Lamberton -- pt. 4. The past in the present. Knowledge, organization, and symbolic capital: two temples to Confucius in Gansu / Jun Jing ; The Confucius temple tragedy of the Cultural Revolution / Wang Liang
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
In ACLS Humanities E-Book.
SUBJECT Kong, Qiu -- Kult -- Geschichte. idszbz
Kong, Qiu. swd
Subject Confucianism -- Rituals.
Confucianism -- Rituals
Ritual
Aufsatzsammlung
Kultur
Politik
Konfuzianismus
Konfuzianismus -- Kult.
Kult -- Konfuzianismus.
Konfuzianismus -- Ritus -- Geschichte.
Form Electronic book
Author Wilson, Thomas A., 1954-
American Council of Learned Societies.
ISBN 0674009614
9780674009615