商品簡介
Drawing on bamboo-strip Baoshan divination texts and other contents of his tomb near Jiangling, Cook (Chinese, Lehigh U.) recreates the life and death of Shao Tuo, a member of the elite and one of many royal officers who negotiated government affairs in the nearby city and palace. He died at age 35 or 40 in 316 BC. She describes death as a journey in ancient China, the tomb, his burial rituals, the topography of the afterlife, and other topics. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Constance A Cook, Ph.D. (1990) in Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley, is Associate Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University. Her publications, including her edited volume Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China (Univ. of Hawaii, 1999), focus on the cultural analysis of excavated texts.
