Chinese Funerary Biographies
An Anthology of Remembered Lives
Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased's biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors' longing for the dead. These epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children—people who are not well documented in more conventional sources such as dynastic histories and local gazetteers.This anthology of translations makes available funerary biographies covering nearly two thousand years, from the Han dynasty through the nineteenth century, selected for thei…
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Weitere Autoren: Yao, Ping (Hrsg.) / Zhang, Cong Ellen (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-295-74642-5
- EAN: 9780295746425
- Produktnummer: 33274847
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 11'422 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 b&w illus
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Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ping Yao, and Cong Ellen Zhang
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