Pornographic Modes of Expression and Nascent Chinese Modernity in Late Imperial China

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Wu
Keyword(s):  
Late Imperial China ◽  
Chinese Modernity ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial China

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China

1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Berling ◽  
James Hayes ◽  
Robert E. Hegel ◽  
Leo Ou-fan Lee ◽  
Victor H. Mair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Late Imperial China ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial China

Newly-Discovered Manuscripts of a Northern-Chinese Horse King Temple Association

T oung Pao ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 183-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meir Shahar
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Rural Culture ◽  
Late Imperial China ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Northern Chinese ◽  
Imperial China ◽  
The Village

AbstractWritten documents from rural north China are rare. This essay examines the newly-discovered records of a Shanxi village association, which was dedicated to the cult of the Horse King. The manuscripts detail the activities, revenues, and expenditures of the Horse King temple association over a hundred-year period (from 1852 until 1956). The essay examines them from social, cultural, and religious perspectives. The manuscripts reveal the internal workings and communal values of a late imperial village association. They unravel the social and economic structure of the village and the centrality of theater in rural culture. Furthermore, the manuscripts bring to the fore a forgotten cult and its ecological background: the Horse King was among the most widely worshiped deities of late imperial China, his flourishing cult reflecting the significance of his protégés – horses, donkeys, and mules – in the agrarian economy.

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