04050nam 22006251 450 991079855680332120220208145055.01-68417-075-310.1163/9781684170753(CKB)3710000000824244(OCoLC)1132226987(MdBmJHUP)muse71148(MiAaPQ)EBC6380552(OCoLC)956712075(nllekb)BRILL9781684170753(MiAaPQ)EBC30975580(Au-PeEL)EBL30975580(EXLCZ)99371000000082424420220208d2014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPublic Memory in Early China /K. E. Brashier1st ed.Boston :Harvard University Asia Center,2014.Leiden; Boston :BRILL,2014.1 online resource (viii, 511 pages :)illustrations ;Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ;910-674-49203-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : han memorial culture -- "Repeated inking" and the backdrop of a manuscript culture -- "Continuous chanting" and the backdrop of an oral performance culture -- Inking and chanting share their secret of longevity -- The ancestor's given names as locative markers -- The ancestor's surname as a spatial marker -- Following the named lineage back through time -- The age of childhood -- The age of adulthood -- The age of advanced years -- The age of death -- The age of afterlife -- Weakening personal agency -- Strengthening interpersonal bonds -- A dynamic relationship net -- Calling cards and the trafficking of names -- The ancestral shrine and its tools of remembrance -- The cemetery and its tools of remembrance -- Commemorative portraiture as a tool of remembrance -- Reduction -- Conversion -- Association.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 descriptors were derived from set phrases in the classical tradition; and their identities were explicitly categorized as being like this cultural hero or that sage official in antiquity. In other words, postmortem remembrance was a process of pouring new ancestors into prefabricated molds or stamping them with rigid cookie cutters. Public Memory in Early China is an examination of this pouring and stamping process. After surveying ways in which learning in the early imperial period relied upon memorization and recitation, K. E. Brashier treats three definitive parameters of identity--name, age, and kinship--as ways of negotiating a person's relative position within the collective consciousness. He then examines both the tangible and intangible media responsible for keeping that defined identity welded into the infrastructure of Han public memory.Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ;91.Funeral rites and ceremoniesChinaHistoryTo 1500BurialChinaHistoryTo 1500Collective memoryChinaHistoryTo 1500MemorialsChineseHistoryTo 1500Inscriptions, ChineseChinaHistoryQin dynasty, 221-207 B.CChinaHistoryHan dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.DFuneral rites and ceremoniesHistoryBurialHistoryCollective memoryHistoryMemorialsChineseHistoryInscriptions, Chinese.393/.930951Brashier K. E.1575882NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910798556803321Public Memory in Early China3853248UNINA