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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="mshtml 6.00.6000.16981" name=generator></head> <body> <P>It has been said that Chinese government was, until the republican period, government through <EM>li</EM>. <EM>Li</EM> is the untranslatable word covering appropriate conduct toward others, from the guest rituals of imperial diplomacy to the hospitality offered to guests in the homes of ordinary people. It also covers the centring of self in relation to the flows and objects in a landscape or a built environment, including the world beyond the spans of human and other lives. It is prevalent under the republican regimes of China and Taiwan in the forming and maintaining of personal relations, in the respect for ancestors, and especially in the continuing rituals of address to gods, of command to demons, and of charity to neglected souls. The concept of ‛religion’ does not grasp this, neither does the concept of ‛ritual’, yet <EM>li</EM> undoubtedly refers to a figuration of a universe and of place in the world as encompassing as any body of rite and magic or of any re

Author

Stephen Feuchtwang

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612706585