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Illustrations | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Introduction: The Practice of the Text | p. 1 |
The Practice of the Classical Text: The Writing of Weddings in the Middle Period | p. 2 |
The Practice of the Academic Text: The Writing of Weddings in Modern and Postmodern History | p. 14 |
Ritual Manuals: Exegetical Hermeneutics and the Re-Embodiment of Antiquity | p. 21 |
Canonical Weddings: Fragments and Hermeneutics | p. 27 |
Rites of the Kaiyuan Period: The Merging of Canon and Precedent | p. 34 |
Manuals of Letters and Ceremonies: The Hermeneutics of Practice and the Preservation of Ritual | p. 39 |
The Hermeneutical Shift in the Northern Song: Epigraphy, Archaeology, and the Identity of Past and Present | p. 45 |
Ritual Manuals of the Northern Song: The Hermeneutics of Text and the Embodiment of Antiquity | p. 50 |
Toward a New Ritual Scripture: Zhu Xi's Family Rituals | p. 72 |
Conclusion | p. 81 |
Wedding Correspondence and Nuptial Songs: Writing as Cultural Capital and Text as Ritual Object | p. 89 |
Cultural Capital and the Inscription of Ritual Time in Wedding Correspondence | p. 93 |
Social Boundaries and Symbolic Capital in Writing Manuals | p. 104 |
Ritual Time and Sexual Metaphors in Wedding Addresses, Poems, and Jokes | p. 116 |
Conclusion | p. 131 |
Calendars, Almanacs, Miracle Tales, and Medical Texts: Cosmic Cycles and the Liminal Affairs of Man | p. 137 |
Patterns of Auspicious and Inauspicious Time in Calendars | p. 147 |
The Calculation of Cosmic Blessings and Dangers in Almanacs | p. 152 |
The Blessings and Dangers of Weddings in Miracle Tales | p. 164 |
The Vulnerable and Dangerous Body of the Bride in Miracle Tales and Medical Texts | p. 168 |
Conclusion | p. 174 |
Legal Codes, Verdicts, and Contracts: Universal Order and Local Practice | p. 179 |
Marriage and the Universal Order: The Annotated Tang Code and the Song Penal Code | p. 187 |
Universal Law and Local Practice: A Collection of Pure and Lucid Verdicts | p. 191 |
Interference with Ritual Practice: Imperial Canon of Sacred Governance and Comprehensive Institutions | p. 201 |
Conclusion | p. 212 |
Conclusion. Texts and Tombs, Ritual and History | p. 221 |
The Practice of the Tomb: Material Traces of Ritual | p. 228 |
The Practice of the Text: Written Traces of Ritual | p. 242 |
The Practice of History: Toward a Cultural History of the Middle Period | p. 246 |
Glossary | p. 251 |
Notes | p. 257 |
Bibliography | p. 317 |
Index | p. 357 |
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