Ancestors, kings, and the Dao

"Traces the rise of poetry from eulogies in BCE excavated texts and outlines the evolution of musical performance within and away from the context of ancestor worship. Compares the rhetoric of bronze inscriptions with later uses of similar terms in newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring...

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Main Author: Cook, Constance A. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge (Massachusetts) London Published by the Harvard University Asia Center 2017
In: Monograph series / Harvard-Yenching Institute (107)
Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series 107
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China / Ritual / Ancestor cult (motif) / Musik / Laudatory speech
B China / Ancestor cult (motif) / Ritual / Musik / Laudatory speech / History 1046 BC-221 BC
Further subjects:B China Kings and rulers
B Eulogies
B Laudatory poetry
B Eulogies History To 1500 China
B Taoism and the arts History To 1500 China
B China History Warring States, 403-221 B.C China
B Ancestor worship (China) History To 1500
B China History Zhou dynasty, 1122-221 B.C
B Kings and rulers
B China History Zhou dynasty, 1122-221 B.C
B China History Warring States, 403-221 B.C
B Eulogies (China) History To 1500
B Taoism and the arts
B Ancestor worship
B Zhou Dynasty (China)
B Taoism and the arts (China) History To 1500
B Ancestor worship History To 1500 China
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