Performing Grief
Year: 2008
Type: book
Abstract: Nanhui, including cotton spinning and weaving, and provided me with meals in their home in Shuyuan.In Sanlin township in the western Pudong region, I learnt much about women's lives and marriages from the women introduced to me by Chen Qinjian.My warm thanks to all the people of Nanhui who have played a role in the making of this book.My thanks to Cynthia Brokaw for forwarding to me a printed text of bridal laments she discovered at the Chengdu Municipal Library.These curious texts appear to be laments revised along Confucian lines for publication as instructional texts for women, and bear little relationship to the oral laments examined in this volume.Nonetheless, they are valuable as rare examples of bridal laments in print in the late imperial period.I also am grateful to M. S. Chan of the Chinese department of the University of Hong Kong, who offered me hospitality while I was in Hong Kong in 2001 as well as access to the Fung Ping Shan Library, where I came across the valuable lament transcriptions of Hong Kong laments by Cheung Cheng-ping.I would particularly like to thank Liu Fei-wen of the Ethnology Institute at the
Author: Anne E. McLaren
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4229728073