New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times

By Göran Aijmer

Book Overview

Keenly attuned to the play of symbols, this anthropological study explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradition: the celebration of lunar the New Year. It analyzes a multitude of folk practices within a holistic perspective on Chinese traditional society, crafting a new picture of a world in which the social rhetoric of gender, lineage continuity, and ancestry were challenged by ritual manifestations of iconic symbolism. Viewed through the lens of Chinese imagery, the traditional calendar reveals new stories about the social organization of time as an expression of existential concerns in late imperial Chinese social life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9629961032
• ISBN13: 9789629961039
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong, The
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher