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Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society Studies in Chinese Society
author
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Martin, Emily.; Wolf, Arthur P.
publisher
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Stanford University Press
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780804738026
ebook isbn13
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9780585156637
language
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English
subject
China--Religion--Congresses.
publication date
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1974
lcc
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BL1810.R44 1974eb
ddc
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301.5/8/0951
subject
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China--Religion--Congresses.
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Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society
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Contributors
Emily M. Ahern
John A. Brim
Donald R. DeGlopper
Stephan Feuchtwang
Maurice Freedman
C. Stevan Harrell
H. G. H. Nelson
Jack M. Potter
Michael Saso
Kristofer M. Schipper
Robert J. Smith
Marjorie Topley
Wang Shih-ch'ing
Wang Sung-hsing
Arthur P. Wolf
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Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society
Edited by Arthur P. Wolf
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
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STUDIES IN CHINESE SOCIETY
Sponsored by the Subcommittee on Research on Chinese Society of the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, 197172
MORTON H. FRIED, Chairman
IRENE B. TAEUBER
EZRA F. VOGEL
JOHN CREIGHTON CAMPBELL, Staff
Previously published in this series
Maurice Freedman, ed., Family and Kinship in Chinese Society
John Wilson Lewis, ed., The City in Communist China
W. E. Willmott, ed., Economic Organization in Chinese Society
Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner, eds., The Chinese City Between Two Worlds
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 1974 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Printed in the United States of America
cloth ISBN 0-8047-0858-4
paper ISBN 0-8047-3802-5
Original printing 1974
Last figure below indicates year of this printing:
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Preface
The essays in this book are the fruit of a conference held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Asilomar State Beach, Pacific Grove, California, October 1115, 1971. The conference was the fifth of six conferences arranged by the Subcommittee on Research on Chinese Society of the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. Earlier conferences resulted in the publication of the four collections listed opposite. Two further volumes are in press: The City in Late Imperial China, edited by G. William Skinner, and Women in Chinese Society, edited by Margery Wolf and Roxane Witke. All six of these books contain materials relevant to the study of Chinese religion, and four of the six contain essays devoted to some aspect of religion or ritual. These essays are "Ritual Aspects of Chinese Kinship and Marriage" by Maurice Freedman and "Chinese Kinship and Mourning Dress" by Arthur P. Wolf, both in Family and Kinship in Chinese Society; "City Temples in Taipei Under Three Regimes" by Stephan Feuchtwang, in The Chinese City Between Two Worlds; "School-Temple and City God" by Stephan Feuchtwang and ''Religious Organization in Traditional Tainan" by Kristofer M. Schipper, to appear in The City in Late Imperial China; and "The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women" by Emily M. Ahern, to appear in Women in Chinese Society. We have here eloquent evidence of the fact that religion and ritual are integral parts of Chinese society, as relevant to the study of kinship and the city as to the study of beliefs and values.
Seventeen papers were presented at the Asilomar conference. For various reasons, six of these papersby John Brim, Myron L. Cohen, David K. Jordan, Michael Saso, Marjorie Topley, and myselfdo not
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appear in this book; those by Professors Brim and Saso, Dr. Topley, and myself have been replaced by new papers. In addition, the conference was attended by S. J. Tambiah, Victor Turner, and Robert J. Smith as discussants, to which role they brought exceptional intelligence, wit, and good humor. We are particularly indebted to Professor Smith for contributing an Afterword to this book. We are also grateful to John Creighton Campbell of the Social Science Research Council, who served as staff for the conference, and to Muriel Bell, whose skillful editing has helped clarify our papers and has given them a measure of elegance they would not otherwise possess.
In his Preface to the first book in this series Maurice Freedman noted that "the company of sociologists and anthropologists working on China is small, and its joint competence to discuss China in the fullest sense of that noun is still further hampered by the inaccessibility of the People's Republic." In the five years since then our company has recruited many new members, and the People's Republic has become accessible for short visits if not for research. The effect of the first change is evident in the fact that seven of the contributors to this volume were still students when the first conference was held. The second change has not had such a profound impact; the papers in this book, like those in Professor Freedman's, are almost exclusively concerned with Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the result would probably be the same if another conference were held next year.
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