Ritual and mythology of the Chinese triads : creating an identity / Barend J. ter Haar.
Ritual and mythology of the Chinese triads : creating an identity / Barend J. ter Haar.
Ritual and mythology of the Chinese triads : creating an identity / Barend J. ter Haar.
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N366/19
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English
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xiii, 517 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. Preliminaries. 1. Interpreting the Triads (Heaven and Earth Gathering) -- Pt. II. Performance. 2. Community and territory. 3. Boundaries and passages. 4. The blood covenant in Chinese society. 5. The Hong family and its moral prescriptions -- Pt. III. Narratives. 6. The demonological messiani...
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The extensive ritual and mythological lore of the Chinese Triads form the scope of the new title in Brill's monograph series Sinica Leidensia. The author evaluates the extant sources and introduces several little used Triad manuals, as well as a wealth of contextual information. Triad lore is placed in its own religious and cultural context, allowi...
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Ritual and mythology of the Chinese triads : creating an identity / Barend J. ter Haar.
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Sinica Leidensia, ISSN 0169-95 ; v. 43.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-483) and index.
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N366/19
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74VvAjyv8X8Z
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9004110631 (alk. paper)
9789004110632 (alk. paper)
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366
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991013677809702626
