Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China by David George Johnson

Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China

Harvard East Asian Monographs #315

David George Johnson

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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. Festivals and their associated rituals and...

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