A Life of Rites and Music (Cultivating Your Gentlemanly Demeanor)

Author: Peng Lin
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book is compiled based on the author's speeches at Phoenix TV, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Sichuan University, and other institutions. It introduces the core content of Chinese ritual and musical civilization by tracing its developmental process. By referencing China's humiliating modern history and contemporary needs, and drawing on the author's decades of research and teaching in ritual studies, it aims to correct modern attitudes of arrogance and prejudice toward traditional rituals. The book argues for the importance and urgency of properly inheriting and creating Chinese ritual norms in awakening cultural consciousness and reshaping national identity. This is a popular introduction to Chinese ritual and musical civilization, suitable for school administrators, teachers, students, their parents, those engaged in cultural exchanges between China and the world, and a broad readership concerned with the preservation of Chinese ritual and musical civilization.