LEADER 04050nam 22006251 450 001 9910813240903321 005 20220208145055.0 010 $a1-68417-075-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9781684170753 035 $a(CKB)3710000000824244 035 $a(OCoLC)1132226987 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse71148 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6380552 035 $a(OCoLC)956712075 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9781684170753 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30975580 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30975580 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000824244 100 $a20220208d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPublic Memory in Early China /$fK. E. Brashier 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBoston :$cHarvard University Asia Center,$d2014. 210 2$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 511 pages :)$cillustrations ; 225 1 $aHarvard University Studies in East Asian Law ;$v91 311 $a0-674-49203-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraordinary in his or her lifetime. Their posthumous names were chosen from a limited predetermined pool; their descriptors were derived from set phrases in the classical tradition; and their identities were explicitly categorized as being like this cultural hero or that sage official in antiquity. In other words, postmortem remembrance was a process of pouring new ancestors into prefabricated molds or stamping them with rigid cookie cutters. Public Memory in Early China is an examination of this pouring and stamping process. After surveying ways in which learning in the early imperial period relied upon memorization and recitation, K. E. Brashier treats three definitive parameters of identity--name, age, and kinship--as ways of negotiating a person's relative position within the collective consciousness. He then examines both the tangible and intangible media responsible for keeping that defined identity welded into the infrastructure of Han public memory. 410 0$aHarvard University Studies in East Asian Law ;$v91. 606 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies$zChina$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aBurial$zChina$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aCollective memory$zChina$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aMemorials$xChinese$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aInscriptions, Chinese 607 $aChina$xHistory$yQin dynasty, 221-207 B.C 607 $aChina$xHistory$yHan dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D 615 0$aFuneral rites and ceremonies$xHistory 615 0$aBurial$xHistory 615 0$aCollective memory$xHistory 615 0$aMemorials$xChinese$xHistory 615 0$aInscriptions, Chinese. 676 $a393/.930951 700 $aBrashier$b K. E.$01648084 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813240903321 996 $aPublic Memory in Early China$93996014 997 $aUNINA