TY - BOOK ID - 11925224 TI - Of body & brush : Grand sacrifice as text/performance in eighteenth-century China PY - 1997 SN - 0226987299 0226987280 PB - Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press, DB - UniCat KW - S04/0690 KW - S06/0205 KW - S12/0340 KW - S12/0216 KW - China: History--Qing: 1644 - 1840 KW - China: Politics and government--Government and political institutions: Qing KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Yili, Liji, Zhouli, Rites: general KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Political philosophy KW - Imperialism. KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - China KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Imperialism KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11925224 AB - The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of eighteenth-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and above all how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. In 'Of Body and Brush', Angela Zito offers a stunningly original analysis of the way ritualizing power was produced jointly by the throne and the official literati who dictated these prescriptions. Forging a critical cultural historical method that challenges traditional categories of Chinese studies, Zito shows for the first time that in their 'performance', the ritual texts embodied, literally, the metaphysics upon which imperial power rested. By combining rule through the brush (the production of ritual texts) with rule through the body (mandated performance), the throne both exhibited its power and attempted to control resistance to it. Bridging Chinese history, anthropology, religion, and performance and cultural studies, Zito brings an important new perspective to the human sciences in general. ER -