Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700.
In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writin...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of cultural expectations. Individuals engaged in acts of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating mor. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199844890 0199844895 |