On sacred grounds : culture, society, politics, and the formation of the cult of Confucius / Thomas A. Wilson, editor.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002.

xiv, 424 pages : illustrations, maps, plates, music ; 24 cm.

Pt. 1. Rites and music. Ritualizing Confucius/Kongzi: the family and state cults of the sage of culture in Imperial China / Thomas A. Wilson ; Destroying Confucius: iconoclasm in the Confucian temple / Deborah Sommer ; Musical Confucianism: the case of 'Jikong yuewu' / Joseph S.C. Lam -- Pt. 2. Imagining Confucius. The genesis of Kongzi in ancient narrative: the figurative as historical / Lionel M. Jensen ; Varied views of the sage: illustrated narratives of the life of Confucius / Julia K. Murray -- Pt. 3. Politics and society. The cultural politics of autocracy: the Confucius temple and Ming despotism, 1368-1530 / Huang Chin-shing ; The Kongs of Qufu: power and privilege in late Imperial China / Abigail Lamberton -- Pt. 4. The past in the present. Knowledge, organization, and symbolic capital: two temples to Confucius in Gansu / Jun Jing ; The Confucius temple tragedy of the Cultural Revolution / Wang Liang.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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