Mechanism of Life for the Netherworld: Transformations of Mingqi in Middle-Period China
One of the quintessential components in traditional funerary culture in China, the mingqi 明器 (spirit article) was not a mere substitute for a real object to be buried with the deceased in the tomb, but was a material manifestation of the dual perspectives of the living and the dead and the relations...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2015]
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Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 161-193 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Hereafter
/ Cult
/ Cultic object
/ Cultural change
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Further subjects: | B
middle period
B Funerary Art B mingqi B Tomb B Netherworld B Socialization |
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