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Chinese ancestor worship : a practice and ritual oriented approach to understanding Chinese culture / by William Lakos.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.Description: 1 online resource (159 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781443825283
  • 144382528X
Other title:
  • Practice and ritual oriented approach to understanding Chinese culture
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chinese Ancestor Worship : A Practice and Ritual Oriented Approach to Understanding Chinese Culture.DDC classification:
  • 299.511213
LOC classification:
  • BL467 .L35 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • K892.98
  • B933
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Contents:
Introduction : a new approach to understanding Chinese culture -- Watching the ancestors -- Mind-ing the ancestors -- Living with the ancestors : filial piety -- Two concepts of ritual and two understandings of li -- Challenging the master narrative : Confucianism-as-Chinese-culture -- Conclusion and consequences.
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Summary: This book is a new approach to how we in the West understand China and Chinese culture. It challenges the master narrative of Confucianism and shows that ancestor worship has underpinned Chinese culture in many influential and vital ways and provides a nuanced and more efficacious paradigm through which Chinese culture may be viewed. It is an exposition and analysis of Chinese ancestor worship and its correlations, especially filial piety and ritual, and it shows the intrinsic importance of ancestor worship to Chinese culture. By using a practice theory--ritual--and communication theory approach this work highlights the relationship between the rituals of ancestor worship and their meaning within Chinese culture. In emphasizing the efficacy of ritual to cultural meaning it also questions and compares the master narrative of Confucianism in its role as the prime cultural symbol and paradigm of Chinese culture. China and Chinese culture is conventionally understood by the West through the paradigm and its articulated discourse of Confucianism. In order to ameliorate and overcome the epistemological problematic of a cross-cultural understanding of China, a new approach to the understanding of China and Chinese culture is proposed. The thesis approach is 'meta-disciplinary' and multi-viewed, and draws on a range of evidence and theories which focus on the problematic of 'cross-cultural understanding'--Publisher.
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Introduction : a new approach to understanding Chinese culture -- Watching the ancestors -- Mind-ing the ancestors -- Living with the ancestors : filial piety -- Two concepts of ritual and two understandings of li -- Challenging the master narrative : Confucianism-as-Chinese-culture -- Conclusion and consequences.

This book is a new approach to how we in the West understand China and Chinese culture. It challenges the master narrative of Confucianism and shows that ancestor worship has underpinned Chinese culture in many influential and vital ways and provides a nuanced and more efficacious paradigm through which Chinese culture may be viewed. It is an exposition and analysis of Chinese ancestor worship and its correlations, especially filial piety and ritual, and it shows the intrinsic importance of ancestor worship to Chinese culture. By using a practice theory--ritual--and communication theory approach this work highlights the relationship between the rituals of ancestor worship and their meaning within Chinese culture. In emphasizing the efficacy of ritual to cultural meaning it also questions and compares the master narrative of Confucianism in its role as the prime cultural symbol and paradigm of Chinese culture. China and Chinese culture is conventionally understood by the West through the paradigm and its articulated discourse of Confucianism. In order to ameliorate and overcome the epistemological problematic of a cross-cultural understanding of China, a new approach to the understanding of China and Chinese culture is proposed. The thesis approach is 'meta-disciplinary' and multi-viewed, and draws on a range of evidence and theories which focus on the problematic of 'cross-cultural understanding'--Publisher.

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