Tempest over teapots: the vilification of teahouse culture in early Republican China
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The Chinese teahouse was an institution that had a wide cultural appeal, serving not only as a place for leisure but also as an office, marketplace and a center for information. However, during the early Republican period, the teahouse lost its status. It was viewed as decadent by the new, rising elite. This group redefined the concept of leisure by promoting parks and stadiums. The teahouse as an area of conflict between the traditional order and the new elite highlighted the tensions prevailing in early Republican China.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 1998
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Till death do us unite: Texts, tombs, and the cultural history of Weddings in middle-period China (eighth through fourteenth Century)
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Tombs, Texts, and the cultural history of wedding in Medieval China are examined to recover the ritual practices of that period. It is argued that a reflective, dialectical hermeneutics, the art of discerning the discourse in work, which creates a dialectic between the historian and the living sources, between the act of representation in the past and reinscription in the present, is the only way to recover the ritual practices of eighth-through fourteenth-century China.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2006
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