TY - BOOK ID - 77870793 TI - The writing of weddings in middle-period China : text and ritual practice in the eighth through fourteenth centuries PY - 2007 SN - 0791480151 1435616693 9781435616691 9780791470732 0791470733 9780791480151 PB - Albany : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Weddings in literature. KW - Marriage customs and rites KW - Bridal customs KW - Betrothal KW - Manners and customs KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Weddings KW - China KW - History KW - Weddings in literature KW - S11/0610 KW - China: Social sciences--Marriage UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77870793 AB - "Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only recovers elements of the ritual practice of Middle-Period weddings, but also reassesses the relationship between texts and the Middle-Period past. Its fourfold narrative of the writing of weddings and its spirited engagement with the texts - ritual manuals, engagement letters, nuptial songs, calendars and almanacs, and legal texts - offer a form and style for a cultural history that accommodates the particularities of the sources of the Chinese imperial past."--BOOK JACKET ER -