- Table, Maps, Music Examples, and Figures
- Preface
- Contributors
- Maps
- Introduction: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Cult of Confucius [Thomas A. Wilson]
- I. Rites and Music
- 1. Ritualizing Confucius/Kongzi: The Family and State Cults of the Sage of Culture in Imperial China [Thomas A. Wilson]
- 2. Destroying Confucius: Iconoclasm in the Confucian Temple [Deborah Sommer]
- 3. Musical Confucianism: The case of ‘Jikong yuewu’ [Joseph S. C. Lam]
- II. Imagining Confucius
- 4. The Genesis of Kongzi in Ancient Narrative: The Figurative As Historical [Lionel M. Jensen]
- 5. Varied Views of the Sage: Illustrated Narratives of the Life of Confucius [Julia K. Murray]
- III. Politics and Society
- 6. The Cultural Politics of Autocracy: The Confucius Temple and Ming Despotism, 1368–1530 [Huang Chin-shing]
- 7. The Kongs of Qufu: Power and Privilege in Late Imperial China [Abigail Lamberton]
- IV. The Past in the Present
- 8. Knowledge, Organization, and Symbolic Capital: Two Temples to Confucius in Gansu [Jun Jing]
- 9. The Confucius Temple Tragedy of the Cultural Revolution [Wang Liang]
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 217
On Sacred Grounds
Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius
Product Details
HARDCOVER
$45.00 • £39.95 • €40.95
ISBN 9780674009615
Publication Date: 03/31/2003
466 pages
6 x 9 inches
2 maps
Harvard University Asia Center > Harvard East Asian Monographs
World, subsidiary rights restricted
Share This
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
I Tatti Renaissance Library
Loeb Classical Library
Murty Classical Library of India