Chu Hsi''s Family Rituals - A Twelfth Century Chinese Manual for Performance of Cappings,

Summary

Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manual for the private performance of the standard Chinese family rituals: initiations, weddings, funerals, and sacrifices to ancestral spirits. This translation makes the work, which is the most important text of its kind in the last thousand years of Chin

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• Authors: Chu Hsi, Hsi Chu
• Assisted by: Patricia Buckley Ebrey (Editor), Patricia Buckley Ebrey (Editor and translation), Ebrey Patricia Buckley (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780691605289
• ISBN: 978-0-691-60528-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); China, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Cultural studies: customs and traditions