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Chinese funerary biographies : an anthology of remembered lives /

"Tens of thousands of epitaphs or funerary biographies survive from imperial China. Written to be engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased's biographical information and exemplary words and deeds, expressing survivors' longing for the dead. Epitaph...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- (Editor), Yao, Ping (Professor of history) (Editor), Zhang, Cong Ellen (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Inscriptions > China.
Epitaphs > China.
China > Biography.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > China.
Burial > China.
China > Social life and customs > Sources.
Burial.
Epitaphs.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Inscriptions.
Manners and customs.
China.
Biographies.
Sources.

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Call Number: CN1160 .C438 2019
 
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