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20 avril 2023
- doi: 10.4000/books.cdf.13024
- isbn: 9782377011131
- eisbn: 9782722606166
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Chine histoire des idées Confucius rites religion sociétés China intellectual history Confucius rites Asian Studies History HIS008000 HBJFSujets proches
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Marianne Bujard, « Let the dead bury their dead: the confinement of the tomb in the Eastern Han Period », Collège de France, ID : 10.4000/books.cdf.13024
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Fear and respect characterise the attitude of the ancient Chinese towards death. Literary sources as well as excavated documents provide many examples of the contradictory behaviours prescribed when dealing with the dead. In his time, Marcel Granet (1884–1940) studied the various recommendations that can be found in the chapters devoted to mourning in the Ritual Treatises (above all the Liji). This article aims to show that an ambiguous attitude towards death also emerges from the archaeologi...