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This is a book launch for Jessey Choo's new book, Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China (University of Hawaii Press, 2022). Two interlocutors, Paul Goldin (University of Pennsyl vania) and Alexei Ditter (Reed College), will engage the author, Jessey Cho o (Rutgers University), in a conversation about her book. This event&n bsp;is open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register.
From the publisher's website:
This nuanced study traces how Chinese came to view death as an oppor tunity to fashion and convey social identities and memories during the medi eval period (200–1000) and the Tang dynasty (618–907), specifically. As Chi nese society became increasingly multicultural and multireligious, to achie ve these aims people selectively adopted, portrayed, and interpreted variou s acts of remembrance. Included in these were new and evolving burial, mour ning, and commemorative practices: joint-burials of spouses, extended famil y members, and coreligionists; relocation and reburial of bodies; posthumou s marriage and divorce; interment of a summoned soul in the absence of a bo dy; and many changes to the classical mourning and commemorative rites that became the norm during the period. Individuals independently constructed t he socio-religious meanings of a particular death and the handling of corps es by engaging in and reviewing acts of remembrance.
Drawing on a var iety of sources, including hundreds of newly excavated entombed epitaph ins criptions, Inscribing Death illuminat es the process through which the living—and the dead—negotiated this multip licity of meanings and how they shaped their memories and identities both a s individuals and as part of collectives. In particular, it details the gro wing emphasis on remembrance as an expression of filial piety and the grave as a focal point of ancestral sacrifice. The work also identifies differen t modes of construction and representation of the self in life and death, d eepening our understanding of ancestral worship and its changing modus oper andi and continuous shaping influence on the most intimate human relationsh ips—thus challenging the current monolithic representation of ancestral wor ship as an extension of families rather than individuals in medieval China.
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Jessey Choo is a cultural historian specializing in China’s medieval period (200–1000 CE), with particular expertise in Chinese entombed epigraphy (muzhiming 墓志銘). H er current research centers on cultural and religious practices associ ated with death and childbirth, as well as the acquisition and exercise of personal agency in everyday life. Specifically, she is interested in the te nsion between the “Confucian” emphasis on selfless devotion to one’s p arents and family and the growing importance in medieval Chinese society of pursuing personal agency, identity, and salvation. She is the author of&nb sp;Inscribing Death: Burials, Tex ts, and Remembrance in Tang China (University of Hawaii Press, 20 22), and a co-editor of Earl y Medieval China: A Sourcebook (Columbia University Press, 2014) and Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from the Taiping Guangji (Hackett Publishing Co ., 2017).
Paul R. Goldin is Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Rituals o f the Way: The Philosophy of Xunzi (1999); The Culture of Sex in Ancient China( 2002); After Confuc ius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy (2005); Confucianism (2011); and& nbsp;The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Re ad Them (2020). In addition, he edited the revised edition of R.H . van Gulik's classic study, Sexual Life in Ancient China (2003), and has edited or co-edited six other books on Chinese culture and political philosophy.
< p>Alexei Kamran Ditter (Ph.D., Princeton) is Professor of Chinese and Humanities at Reed College. His research explores interactions between social and textual practices in late medieval Chinese literature, f ocusing on questions of place, genre, and memory. His current projects incl ude writing a monograph on collaborative remembering in 7th–10Ad
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This is a book launch for Jessey Choo's new book, Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China (University of Hawaii Press, 2022). Two interlocutors, Paul Goldin (University of Pennsyl vania) and Alexei Ditter (Reed College), will engage the author, Jessey Cho o (Rutgers University), in a conversation about her book. This event&n bsp;is open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register.
From the publisher's website:
This nuanced study traces how Chinese came to view death as an oppor tunity to fashion and convey social identities and memories during the medi eval period (200–1000) and the Tang dynasty (618–907), specifically. As Chi nese society became increasingly multicultural and multireligious, to achie ve these aims people selectively adopted, portrayed, and interpreted variou s acts of remembrance. Included in these were new and evolving burial, mour ning, and commemorative practices: joint-burials of spouses, extended famil y members, and coreligionists; relocation and reburial of bodies; posthumou s marriage and divorce; interment of a summoned soul in the absence of a bo dy; and many changes to the classical mourning and commemorative rites that became the norm during the period. Individuals independently constructed t he socio-religious meanings of a particular death and the handling of corps es by engaging in and reviewing acts of remembrance.
Drawing on a var iety of sources, including hundreds of newly excavated entombed epitaph ins criptions, Inscribing Death illuminat es the process through which the living—and the dead—negotiated this multip licity of meanings and how they shaped their memories and identities both a s individuals and as part of collectives. In particular, it details the gro wing emphasis on remembrance as an expression of filial piety and the grave as a focal point of ancestral sacrifice. The work also identifies differen t modes of construction and representation of the self in life and death, d eepening our understanding of ancestral worship and its changing modus oper andi and continuous shaping influence on the most intimate human relationsh ips—thus challenging the current monolithic representation of ancestral wor ship as an extension of families rather than individuals in medieval China.
Bios:
Jessey Choo is a cultural historian specializing in China’s medie val period (200–1000 CE), with particular expertise in Chinese entombed epi graphy (muzhiming 墓志銘). Her current research centers on cultural and r eligious practices associated with death and childbirth, as well as the acq uisition and exercise of personal agency in everyday life. Specifically, sh e is interested in the tension between the “Confucian” emphasis on sel fless devotion to one’s parents and family and the growing importance in me dieval Chinese society of pursuing personal agency, identity, and salvation . She is the author of Inscr ibing Death: Burials, Texts, and Remembrance in Tang China (Unive rsity of Hawaii Press, 2022), and a co-editor of Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook (Columbia University Press, 2014) and Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from the Taiping Guangji&nb sp;(Hackett Publishing Co., 2017).
Paul R. Goldin is Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Rituals of the Way: The Philosophy of Xunzi (1999 ); The Culture of S ex in Ancient China(2002); After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy  ;(2005); Confuciani sm (2011); and The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Clas sical Texts and How to Read Them (2020). In addition, he edited t he revised edition of R.H. van Gulik's classic study, Sexual Life in Ancient China ( 2003), and has edited or co-edited six other books on Chinese culture and p olitical philosophy.
Alexei Kamran Ditter (Ph.D., Pr inceton) is Professor of Chinese and Humanities at Reed College. His resear ch explores interactions between social and textual practices in late medie val Chinese literature, focusing on questions of place, genre, and memory. His current projects include writing a monograph on collaborative rememberi ng in 7th–10th century China and co-editing, wit h Jessey J.C. Choo, an anthology of late medieval Chinese entombed epitaphs .
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