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 ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 511 pages :); illustrations ; |
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