Ancestors, kings, and the Dao

"Traces the rise of poetry from eulogies in BCE excavated texts and outlines the evolution of musical performance within and away from the context of ancestor worship. Compares the rhetoric of bronze inscriptions with later uses of similar terms in newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cook, Constance A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Chinese
Published: Cambridge, (Massachusetts) Published by the Harvard University Asia Center [2017]
Series:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series 107.
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