Mihwa Choi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mihwa Choi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mihwa |
| FAMILY NAME | Choi |
| SIGNATURE | CHOI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chapman University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cheung Hiu Yu, Empowered by Ancestors
Burial
Burials had become a focal point of some Confucian efforts to build a socio-moral order based on Confucian norms. “Simple burial,” idealized by scholar-officials, used a simple pit tomb with minimal burial items, based on the mainstream Confucian tradition of rejecting literary and material expression of the concrete social imaginaries of the world-beyond. Its focus rested with a tomb inscription tablet highlighting the public accomplishments and…
The Adaptation of Ancestral Ritual to Serve the Royal Imaginary
After the Song government signed the humiliating peace treaty with the supposed “barbarian” Liao state, a “Heavenly Text” declaring the legitimacy of the imperial family to rule mysteriously appeared on top of a palace gate. The imperial court then invested heavily in various ritual performances as a major way of solving practical issues. After offering the historically rare fengshan imperial ritual giving thanks for dynastic prosperity, ironical…
“How Does Heaven Come to Speak?”
After the death of emperor Zhenzong, scholar-officials challenged the legitimacy of the Heavenly Text and the cult of the Sacred Ancestor. They argued that because there was no way that Heaven could speak through the proposed revealed text, the Heavenly Text was fabricated. A consensus was reached between Emperor Renzong and officials that Confucian canonical rituals would be the sole orthopraxis of imperial rituals, and the cult of the Sacred An…
Conclusion
Each of the competing social imaginaries held differing visions of how society ought to be constructed, and where a particular individual desired to be situated within that imagined world. In a world where ritual occupied one of the core elements constituting the social and political fabric of society, death rituals served, not only as a means of effectively displaying existing power relations, but also as a tool for practitioners to construct po…
Social Imaginaries and Politics in the Narratives on the World-beyond and the Supernatural
During the period when official and public discourse was frequently used for political purges, stories about the affairs of the world-beyond were used as a convenient vehicle for delivering political messages. After the death of Wang Anshi, a supporter of stronger monarchical power, a series of eyewitness accounts of his ill fate in purgatory were widely spread. In contrast, Han Qi, a critic of Wang, was reported to have become a god in glory who…
Ordering Society through Confucian Rituals
Sima Guang, leader of the faction advocating enhancement of bureaucratic power, authored a Confucian family ritual manual. He believed in the moral reformation of society through the dissemination of Confucian ritual norms and maintained that rituals were the locus in which the hierarchical social order could be manifested according to official rank. He especially objected to lavish burials performed by wealthy people in the belief that such buri…
Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China
This study inquires into a historical question of how politics surrounding death rituals and ensuing changes in ritual performance shaped a revival of Confucianism during eleventh-century China. It investigates how polarizing debates about death rituals introduced new terrain for political power dynamics between monarchy and officialdom, and between groups of court officials. During the reign of Renzong, in reaction to Emperor Zhenzong’s statewid…
Materializing Salvation
The Wushang huanglu dazhai licheng yi synthesizes both old and new rituals dedicated to saving souls from purgatory at the time that the Yellow Register Purgation has increasingly become a popular form of death ritual. The ritual presented in the text is designed to assure supplicants that the ritual performance is successful in bringing about the salvation of the deceased
Extreme Asceticism
The ascetic ideals initially established by Confucius are moderate and rational. Yet, virtuoso asceticism became a social phenomenon when the state desired to institute a more powerful channel to disseminate Confucian values in the broader populace beyond the literati. The reason that the cult of the virtuoso particularly served this purpose was that the enshrinement of virtuoso generated social power within community. That social power, somewhat…
Syncretism
Extreme Asceticism
The ascetic ideals initially established by Confucius are moderate and rational. Yet, virtuoso asceticism became a social phenomenon when the state desired to institute a more powerful channel to disseminate Confucian values in the broader populace beyond the literati. The reason that the cult of the virtuoso particularly served this purpose was that the enshrinement of virtuoso generated social power within community. That social power, somewhat…
Syncretism
Extreme Asceticism
The ascetic ideals initially established by Confucius are moderate and rational. Yet, virtuoso asceticism became a social phenomenon when the state desired to institute a more powerful channel to disseminate Confucian values in the broader populace beyond the literati. The reason that the cult of the virtuoso particularly served this purpose was that the enshrinement of virtuoso generated social power within community. That social power, somewhat…
Materializing Salvation
The Wushang huanglu dazhai licheng yi synthesizes both old and new rituals dedicated to saving souls from purgatory at the time that the Yellow Register Purgation has increasingly become a popular form of death ritual. The ritual presented in the text is designed to assure supplicants that the ritual performance is successful in bringing about the salvation of the deceased
Burial
Burials had become a focal point of some Confucian efforts to build a socio-moral order based on Confucian norms. “Simple burial,” idealized by scholar-officials, used a simple pit tomb with minimal burial items, based on the mainstream Confucian tradition of rejecting literary and material expression of the concrete social imaginaries of the world-beyond. Its focus rested with a tomb inscription tablet highlighting the public accomplishments and…
The Adaptation of Ancestral Ritual to Serve the Royal Imaginary
After the Song government signed the humiliating peace treaty with the supposed “barbarian” Liao state, a “Heavenly Text” declaring the legitimacy of the imperial family to rule mysteriously appeared on top of a palace gate. The imperial court then invested heavily in various ritual performances as a major way of solving practical issues. After offering the historically rare fengshan imperial ritual giving thanks for dynastic prosperity, ironical…
“How Does Heaven Come to Speak?”
After the death of emperor Zhenzong, scholar-officials challenged the legitimacy of the Heavenly Text and the cult of the Sacred Ancestor. They argued that because there was no way that Heaven could speak through the proposed revealed text, the Heavenly Text was fabricated. A consensus was reached between Emperor Renzong and officials that Confucian canonical rituals would be the sole orthopraxis of imperial rituals, and the cult of the Sacred An…
Conclusion
Each of the competing social imaginaries held differing visions of how society ought to be constructed, and where a particular individual desired to be situated within that imagined world. In a world where ritual occupied one of the core elements constituting the social and political fabric of society, death rituals served, not only as a means of effectively displaying existing power relations, but also as a tool for practitioners to construct po…
Social Imaginaries and Politics in the Narratives on the World-beyond and the Supernatural
During the period when official and public discourse was frequently used for political purges, stories about the affairs of the world-beyond were used as a convenient vehicle for delivering political messages. After the death of Wang Anshi, a supporter of stronger monarchical power, a series of eyewitness accounts of his ill fate in purgatory were widely spread. In contrast, Han Qi, a critic of Wang, was reported to have become a god in glory who…
Ordering Society through Confucian Rituals
Sima Guang, leader of the faction advocating enhancement of bureaucratic power, authored a Confucian family ritual manual. He believed in the moral reformation of society through the dissemination of Confucian ritual norms and maintained that rituals were the locus in which the hierarchical social order could be manifested according to official rank. He especially objected to lavish burials performed by wealthy people in the belief that such buri…
Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China
This study inquires into a historical question of how politics surrounding death rituals and ensuing changes in ritual performance shaped a revival of Confucianism during eleventh-century China. It investigates how polarizing debates about death rituals introduced new terrain for political power dynamics between monarchy and officialdom, and between groups of court officials. During the reign of Renzong, in reaction to Emperor Zhenzong’s statewid…
Cheung Hiu Yu, Empowered by Ancestors
Chinese history and philosophy (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Power (physics) (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Literature (4 works)