TY - BOOK ID - 68440992 TI - Confucian rituals and Chinese villagers ritual change and social transformation in a southeastern Chinese community, 1368-1949 PY - 2013 SN - 9789004257245 9789004257252 900425725X 1299847625 9781299847620 9004257241 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Confucianism KW - Religion and sociology KW - Neo-confucianism KW - History. KW - Rituals KW - History and criticism. KW - Social aspects KW - China, Southeast KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Social life and customs. KW - S04/0670 KW - S04/0680 KW - S11/0500 KW - S12/0340 KW - Religion and society KW - Religious sociology KW - Society and religion KW - Sociology, Religious KW - Sociology and religion KW - Sociology of religion KW - Sociology KW - Philosophy, Chinese KW - Religions KW - History KW - Rituals&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - China: History--Ming: 1368 - 1644 KW - China: History--Qing: general: 1644 - 1912 KW - China: Social sciences--Daily life: general KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Yili, Liji, Zhouli, Rites: general KW - Southeast China KW - Neo-Confucianism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68440992 AB - In Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers , Yonghua Liu presents a detailed study of how a southeastern Chinese community experienced and responded to the process whereby Confucian rituals - previously thought unfit for practice by commoners - were adopted in the Chinese countryside and became an integral part of village culture, from the mid fourteenth to mid twentieth centuries. The book examines the important but understudied ritual specialists, masters of rites ( lisheng ), and their ritual handbooks while showing their crucial role in the ritual life of Chinese villagers. This discussion of lisheng and their rituals deepens our understanding of the ritual aspect of popular Confucianism and sheds new light on social and cultural transformations in late imperial China. ER -