. "History" . . "Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700"@en . . . . . . . . . "In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of cultural expectations. Individuals engaged in acts of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating mor."@en . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . "Sanctity and self-inflicted violence in Chinese religions, 1500-1700" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "In this study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the 16th and 17th centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture." . . . . . . "\"In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of cultural expectations. Individuals engaged in acts of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating moral values, reinstituting order, forging new social relations, and protecting against the threat of moral ambiguity. Self-inflicted violence was intelligible both to the person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of the various religions of the period: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and other religions. This book is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on bodily practices in late imperial China, challenging preconceived ideas about analytic categories of religion, culture, and ritual in the study of Chinese religions.\"--Publisher's website." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Selbstbeschädigung." . . "Chine" . . "Violence Aspect religieux 16e siècle." . . "Violence Aspect religieux Histoire 16e siècle." . . "Self-mutilation Religious aspects History 16th century." . . "Automutilation Aspect religieux Histoire 16e siècle." . . "Religious aspects History 17th century." . . "Religion." . . "Ritual." . . "Automutilation Aspect religieux Histoire 17e siècle." . . "Rites and ceremonies China History 17th century." . . "Heiligheid." . . "Rites and ceremonies China History 16th century." . . "Self-mutilation Religious aspects History 17th century." . . "Ritus." . . "Violence Religious aspects History 17th century." . . "Violence Religious aspects History 16th century." . . "China Religious life and customs." . . "Rites et cérémonies Chine Histoire 16e siècle." . . "Ritueller Selbstmord." . . "Automutilation Aspect religieux 16e siècle." . . "Rites et cérémonies Chine Histoire 17e siècle." . . "China." . . "China" . "RELIGION / Eastern" . . "Automutilation Aspect religieux 17e siècle." . . "Automutilatie." . . "Gewalt." . . "Violence Aspect religieux 17e siècle." . . "Violence Aspect religieux Histoire 17e siècle." . . . .