Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China by Roel Sterckx

Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China

Roel Sterckx

246 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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In ancient China, the preparation of food and the offering up of food as a religious sacrifice were intimately connected with models of sagehood and ideas of self-cultivation and morality. Drawing on received and newly excavated written sources, R...

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