Performing grief [electronic resource] : bridal laments in rural China / Anne E. McLaren.
Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2008.Description: x, 209 p. : mapSubject(s):- Marriage customs and rites -- China
- Arranged marriage -- China
- Brides -- China -- Social conditions
- Women -- China -- Social conditions
- Rural families -- China -- Social conditions
- Laments -- China
- Oral tradition -- China
- Country life -- China -- Social life and customs
- China -- Social life and customs
- 392.50951 22
- GT2783.A2 M35 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index.
Imagining Jiangnan -- The people of the sands -- The hollow cotton spool : women and labour in Nanhui -- Seizing a slice of heaven : the lament cycle of Pan Cailian -- Weeping and wailing in Chinese history -- Shaking heaven : laments & ritual power.
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