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Performing grief bridal laments in rural China /

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Main Author: McLaren, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Marriage customs and rites > China.
Arranged marriage > China.
Brides > China > Social conditions.
Women > China > Social conditions.
Rural families > China > Social conditions.
Laments > China.
Oral tradition > China.
Country life > China > Social life and customs.
China > Social life and customs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Imagining Jiangnan
  • The people of the sands
  • The hollow cotton spool : women and labour in Nanhui
  • Seizing a slice of heaven : the lament cycle of Pan Cailian
  • Weeping and wailing in Chinese history
  • Shaking heaven : laments & ritual power.

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