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Hardback. New. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China.
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- Title Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China
- Author David Johnson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition.
- Pages 450
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
- Date 02/28/2010
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780674033047 / 0674033043
- Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 9.35 x 6.74 x 1.26 in (23.75 x 17.12 x 3.20 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects China - Religion, Festivals - China
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009033043
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.511
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Citations
- Choice, 12/01/2010, Page 0
- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2010, Page 19
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