Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China

摘要

Shanxi province is the historian's paradise. Go wherever you would, historical steles lie strewn on the ground, ancient buildings dot the villages, and some of the villages, to this day, perform ceremonies that must have descended through many generations. This book gives a glimpse of what one historian has found to his excitement. Moreover he discovered, through those ceremonies, the ritual foundation of north China's village life.