Good Son Is Sad If He Hears the Name of His Father - The Tabooing of Names in China As a Way of Implementing Social Values

Informationen zum Autor Piotr Adamek Klappentext The present work of Piotr Adamek offers the first comprehensive study in a Western language on the history of name tabooing (bihui)! a cultural practice highly relevant for historical research on imperial China. Zusammenfassung The present work A Good Son Is Sad if He Hears the Name of His Father is a systematic study of Chinese name-tabooing customs, which until now have been relatively little explored in Western-language Sinological studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Taboo and Name Chapter Three: Basic Characteristics of Name Tabooing Chapter Four: Beginnings of the Custom of Name Taboo in China Chapter Five: Name Tabooing from the Han to Southern and Northern Dynasties Chapter Six: Culmination of the Custom of Name Taboo Chapter Seven: Last Centuries of Name Tabooing Chapter Eight: Consequences of Name Taboo for Chinese People Chapter Nine: Historiographical Consequences and the Basics of the Discipline of Name Tabooing Chapter Ten: Special Topics of Name Tabooing Bibliography Chronological Index of Taboo Names of Emperors and Other Famous Persons Alphabetical Index of Taboo Characters Table: Confucian Officials Executed for Taboo Mistakes

Product details

• Authors: Piotr Adamek, Adamek Piotr
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781909662698
• ISBN: 978-1-909662-69-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Monumenta Serica Monograph Series; Monumenta Serica Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; China, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology: customs & traditions, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Social and cultural history, Cultural studies: customs and traditions