K E Brashier
Biographic Data
| ID | 8495104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K E Brashier |
| GIVEN NAMES | K E |
| FAMILY NAME | Brashier |
| SIGNATURE | BRASHIER K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Public Memory in Early China
Ancestral Memory in Early China
Ancestral ritual in early China was an orchestrated dance between what was present (the offerings and the living) and what was absent (the ancestors). The interconnections among the tangible elements of the sacrifice were overt and almost mechanical, but extending those connections to the invisible guests required a medium that was itself invisible. Thus in early China, ancestral sacrifice was associated with focused thinking about the ancestors,…
The Spirit Lord of Baishi Mountain
Overseen by hungry gods on the one hand or structured by impersonal cyclic forces on the other, the Eastern Han cosmos eluded a single consistent model accepted by everyone. Yet these cosmological perspectives were not competing arguments held by different people; they were inconsistent genres of discourse found within the same people and sometimes even within the same texts. Late Eastern Han mountain inscriptions may ritually appease sacrifice-e…
A Poetic Exposition on Heaven and Earth by Chenggong Sui (231-273)
Unlike other forms of early Chinese poetry that create intense images in few words, the poetic exposition or futends to tell all, sometimes with compartmentalized encyclopeda. ic presentations and sometimes with torrents of alien words, composed in long lists that imply a sense of comprehensiveness. For example, the enumerative catalogues of trees, animals, flowers, gems, and other exotic objects in the works of Sima Xiangru (ca. 180-117 B.C.E.) …
Han Thanatology and the Division of “Souls”
Modern scholarship has repeatedly maintained that the separation of the hun and po souls at death was a popular Han belief, but a re-examination of the received literature suggests that hunpo dualism was at best only a scholastic model. Sources ranging from the Zuo zhuan to Han medical texts depict the hunpo as an inherent part of the properly functioning body complex, and any deficiency in the hunpo did not necessarily result in death but in dis…
Longevity Like, Metal and Stone
When debating the significance of jade objects unearthed in early Chinese burials, most scholars look beyond the object's shape to also probe the ritual meaning of its medium the jade itself. The classics have invested jade with many virtues such as 'smoothness like benevolence' and 'durability like intelligence',l and when archaeology yields jade suits, jade disks or jade tubes, scholars rightly take this physical material into account. Yet whil…
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Longevity Like, Metal and Stone
When debating the significance of jade objects unearthed in early Chinese burials, most scholars look beyond the object's shape to also probe the ritual meaning of its medium the jade itself. The classics have invested jade with many virtues such as 'smoothness like benevolence' and 'durability like intelligence',l and when archaeology yields jade suits, jade disks or jade tubes, scholars rightly take this physical material into account. Yet whil…
A Poetic Exposition on Heaven and Earth by Chenggong Sui (231-273)
Unlike other forms of early Chinese poetry that create intense images in few words, the poetic exposition or futends to tell all, sometimes with compartmentalized encyclopeda. ic presentations and sometimes with torrents of alien words, composed in long lists that imply a sense of comprehensiveness. For example, the enumerative catalogues of trees, animals, flowers, gems, and other exotic objects in the works of Sima Xiangru (ca. 180-117 B.C.E.) …
Han Thanatology and the Division of “Souls”
Modern scholarship has repeatedly maintained that the separation of the hun and po souls at death was a popular Han belief, but a re-examination of the received literature suggests that hunpo dualism was at best only a scholastic model. Sources ranging from the Zuo zhuan to Han medical texts depict the hunpo as an inherent part of the properly functioning body complex, and any deficiency in the hunpo did not necessarily result in death but in dis…
The Spirit Lord of Baishi Mountain
Overseen by hungry gods on the one hand or structured by impersonal cyclic forces on the other, the Eastern Han cosmos eluded a single consistent model accepted by everyone. Yet these cosmological perspectives were not competing arguments held by different people; they were inconsistent genres of discourse found within the same people and sometimes even within the same texts. Late Eastern Han mountain inscriptions may ritually appease sacrifice-e…
Ancestral Memory in Early China
Ancestral ritual in early China was an orchestrated dance between what was present (the offerings and the living) and what was absent (the ancestors). The interconnections among the tangible elements of the sacrifice were overt and almost mechanical, but extending those connections to the invisible guests required a medium that was itself invisible. Thus in early China, ancestral sacrifice was associated with focused thinking about the ancestors,…
Public Memory in Early China
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