LEADER 03458nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910785712203321 005 20230725034944.0 010 $a1-4438-2528-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000312748 035 $a(EBL)1106867 035 $a(OCoLC)823722121 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000803505 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12356445 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803505 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10811165 035 $a(PQKB)10287871 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1106867 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1106867 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642873 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL495761 035 $a(OCoLC)666718215 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB144682 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000312748 100 $a20110201d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChinese ancestor worship$b[electronic resource] $ea practice and ritual oriented approach to understanding Chinese culture /$fby William Lakos 210 $aNewcastle upon Tyne $cCambridge Scholars Pub.$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (159 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4438-2495-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [137]-144) and index. 327 $aIntroduction. 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. 330 $aThis 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.? 606 $aAncestor worship$zChina 606 $aReligion and culture$zChina 615 0$aAncestor worship 615 0$aReligion and culture 676 $a299.511213 700 $aLakos$b William$01567994 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785712203321 996 $aChinese ancestor worship$93839813 997 $aUNINA