Chu Hsi's Family Rituals A Twelfth-Century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rites |
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| Author:
| Hsi, Chu |
| Edited and Translated by:
| Ebrey, Patricia Buckley |
| Series title: | Princeton Library of Asian Translations Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-60528-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2014 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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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
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