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Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in Eighteenth-Century China
Angela Zito - University of Chicago Press, 1997
Book description
The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of 18th-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. OF BODY AND BRUSH shows how ritualizing power was produced jointly by the throne and the official literati who dictated the prescriptions. Illustrated.
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