Public Memory in Early China / / K. E. Brashier.

In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraordinary in his or her lifetime. Their posthumous names were chosen from a limited predetermined pool; their...

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Superior document:Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 91
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2014.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 91.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 511 pages :); illustrations ;
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