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Sanctity and self-inflicted violence in Chinese religions, 1500-1700, Jimmy Yu
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- Summary
- "In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of cultural expectations. Individuals engaged in acts of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating moral values, reinstituting order, forging new social relations, and protecting against the threat of moral ambiguity. Self-inflicted violence was intelligible both to the person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of the various religions of the period: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and other religions. This book is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on bodily practices in late imperial China, challenging preconceived ideas about analytic categories of religion, culture, and ritual in the study of Chinese religions."--Publisher's website
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 272 pages
- Contents
-
- A Culture in Flux: Historical Background
- Embodying the Text through Blood Writing
- Nourishing the Parent with One's Own Flesh
- Chaste Widows as Entertainment and Revenants
- Exposing and Burning the Body for Rain
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780199844906
- Label
- Sanctity and self-inflicted violence in Chinese religions, 1500-1700
- Title
- Sanctity and self-inflicted violence in Chinese religions, 1500-1700
- Statement of responsibility
- Jimmy Yu
- Subject
-
- China
- China -- Religious life and customs
- Religion
- Rites and ceremonies -- China -- History -- 16th century
- Rites and ceremonies -- China -- History -- 17th century
- Ritus
- Ceremonier -- religiösa aspekter | historia -- Kina
- Self-mutilation -- Religious aspects | History -- 16th century
- Self-mutilation -- Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Violence -- Religious aspects | History -- 16th century
- Violence -- Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Våld -- religiösa aspekter | historia -- Kina
- Selbstbeschädigung
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of cultural expectations. Individuals engaged in acts of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating moral values, reinstituting order, forging new social relations, and protecting against the threat of moral ambiguity. Self-inflicted violence was intelligible both to the person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of the various religions of the period: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and other religions. This book is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on bodily practices in late imperial China, challenging preconceived ideas about analytic categories of religion, culture, and ritual in the study of Chinese religions."--Publisher's website
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Yu, Jimmy
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BL1812.R57
- LC item number
- Y85 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Self-mutilation
- Rites and ceremonies
- Violence
- Self-mutilation
- Rites and ceremonies
- Violence
- China
- Religion
- Selbstbeschädigung
- Ritus
- China
- Ceremonier
- Våld
- Label
- Sanctity and self-inflicted violence in Chinese religions, 1500-1700, Jimmy Yu
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-256) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A Culture in Flux: Historical Background -- Embodying the Text through Blood Writing -- Nourishing the Parent with One's Own Flesh -- Chaste Widows as Entertainment and Revenants -- Exposing and Burning the Body for Rain -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 753912277
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199844906
- Lccn
- 2011035537
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40021249269
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)753912277
- Label
- Sanctity and self-inflicted violence in Chinese religions, 1500-1700, Jimmy Yu
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-256) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A Culture in Flux: Historical Background -- Embodying the Text through Blood Writing -- Nourishing the Parent with One's Own Flesh -- Chaste Widows as Entertainment and Revenants -- Exposing and Burning the Body for Rain -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 753912277
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199844906
- Lccn
- 2011035537
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40021249269
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)753912277
Subject
- China
- China -- Religious life and customs
- Religion
- Rites and ceremonies -- China -- History -- 16th century
- Rites and ceremonies -- China -- History -- 17th century
- Ritus
- Ceremonier -- religiösa aspekter | historia -- Kina
- Self-mutilation -- Religious aspects | History -- 16th century
- Self-mutilation -- Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Violence -- Religious aspects | History -- 16th century
- Violence -- Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Våld -- religiösa aspekter | historia -- Kina
- Selbstbeschädigung
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