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Author: Guolong Lai
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.771kg
ISBN: 9780295994499
ISBN 10: 0295994495
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 02 March 2015
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Lai offers his reader an extraordinary wealth of both facts and interpretations -- John Lagerwey * Arts Asiatiques * This book provides a very nuanced, detailed, and vivid account of the 'mortuary religion' of southern China from the Warring States to the Han period. . . . A very valuable resource for future studies in this field. . . . The bold but always well-founded stance that Lai takes on these topics combined with the richness of source material and exemplary nature of this approach make this volume a true milestone in the study of early religion in southern China. -- Anke Hein * Journal of Chinese Religions * [I]mmensely interesting. . . Excavating the Afterlife should be of interest to Sinologists and researchers of Chinese studies, archaeologists and art historians, scholars and students of comparative religions. -- Zbigniew Wesolowski * Monumenta Serica * Lai highlights the richness and complexity of the region's archaeological record while demonstrating the nuance that well-considered material culture can add to knowledge of early religion. * Choice *
Lai highlights the richness and complexity of the regions archaeological record while demonstrating the nuance that well-considered material culture can add to knowledge of early religion. Choice [I]mmensely interesting... Excavating the Afterlife should be of interest to Sinologists and researchers of Chinese studies, archaeologists and art historians, scholars and students of comparative religions. -- Zbigniew Wesolowski Monumenta Serica
Lai highlights the richness and complexity of the region's archaeological record while demonstrating the nuance that well-considered material culture can add to knowledge of early religion. Choice
""Lai highlights the richness and complexity of the region’s archaeological record while demonstrating the nuance that well-considered material culture can add to knowledge of early religion."" * Choice * ""[I]mmensely interesting. . . Excavating the Afterlife should be of interest to Sinologists and researchers of Chinese studies, archaeologists and art historians, scholars and students of comparative religions."" -- Zbigniew Wesolowski * Monumenta Serica * ""This book provides a very nuanced, detailed, and vivid account of the ‘mortuary religion’ of southern China from the Warring States to the Han period. . . . A very valuable resource for future studies in this field. . . . The bold but always well-founded stance that Lai takes on these topics combined with the richness of source material and exemplary nature of this approach make this volume a true milestone in the study of early religion in southern China."" -- Anke Hein * Journal of Chinese Religions * ""Lai offers his reader an extraordinary wealth of both facts and interpretations"" -- John Lagerwey * Arts Asiatiques *
Lai highlights the richness and complexity of the region's archaeological record while demonstrating the nuance that well-considered material culture can add to knowledge of early religion. Choice [I]mmensely interesting... Excavating the Afterlife should be of interest to Sinologists and researchers of Chinese studies, archaeologists and art historians, scholars and students of comparative religions. -- Zbigniew Wesolowski Monumenta Serica
Author Information
Guolong Lai is associate professor of Chinese art and archaeology at the University of Florida and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
