New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times

This study, which has been conducted in the spirit of a symbologically inclined anthropology, explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradition - the celebration of the New Year in a lunar calendar of very ancient origins. Focus here is on the various New Year customs of Central China, the area of the extended lake-land in the mid-Yangzi Valley, in late imperial times. A multitude of folk practices are analyzed within a holistic perspective on Chinese traditional society and the result is a new picture of a world of the past in which the social rhetorics of gender, lineage continuity and ancestry are challenged by ritual manifestations of iconic symbolism.Author: Aijmer, Goran,author Contributors: Aijmer, Goran,author Binding: paperback Publication Date: Release Date: Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis Published/Release Date: 31 Mar 2003 Format: Paperback / softback Publisher/Studio/Brand: The Chinese University Press Author/Director/Artist: Goran Aijmer Dimension (cm): 228x154x13 mm Package Dimension (cm): 13x226x152 mm Item Weight (g): 284 Package Weight (g): 272