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Author Cheung, Hiu Yu, author.

Title Empowered by ancestors : controversy over the Imperial Temple in Song China (960-1279) / Cheung Hiu Yu.

Publication Info. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, the University of Hong Kong, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations
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Summary Empowered by Ancestors: Controversy over the Imperial Temple in Song China (960-1279) examines the enduring tension between cultural authority and political power in imperial China by inquiring into Song ritual debates over the Imperial Temple. During these debates, Song-educated elites utilized various discourses to rectify temple rituals in their own ways. In this process, political interests were less emphasized and even detached from ritual discussions. Meanwhile, Song scholars of particular schools developed various ritual theories that were used to reshape society in later periods. Hence.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.
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Subject China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279.
Ritual -- China -- History -- To 1500.
Ritual.
China.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Temples.
Temples -- China -- Beijing.
China -- Beijing.
China -- Religious life and customs -- To 1500.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
Song Dynasty (China)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9789888268535
Print version: 9888528580 9789888528585 (OCoLC)1200580145
ISBN 9789888268535 (electronic book)
9888268538 (electronic book)
9888528580 (hardback)
9789888528585 (hardback)