Public memory in early China / / K. E. Brashier.

In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraordinary in his or her lifetime. Their posthumous names were chosen from a limited predetermined pool; their...

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Superior document:Harvard-Yenching Institute Monographs ; 91
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2014]
2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 91.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 511 pages :); illustrations ;
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