Public Memory in Early China

Summary

K. E. Brashier examines practices of memorializing the dead in early imperial China. After surveying how learning in this period relied on memorization and recitation, he treats the parameters name, age, and kinship as ways of identifying a person in Han public memory, as well as the media responsible for preserving the deceased person’s identity.

Product details

• Authors: K. E. Brashier
• Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.2014
• EAN: 9780674492035
• ISBN: 978-0-674-49203-5
• No. of pages: 526
• Dimensions: 237 mm x 162 mm x 39 mm
• Weight: 926 g
• Illustrations: 10 halftones, 10 line illustrations, 3 tables
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories