{"product_id":"9780791480151","title":"The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth Through Fourteenth Centuries","description":"Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only recovers elements of the ritual practice of Middle-Period weddings, but also reassesses the relationship between texts and the Middle-Period past. Its fourfold narrative of the writing of weddings and its spirited engagement with the texts-ritual manuals, engagement letters, nuptial songs, calendars and almanacs, and legal texts-offer a form and style for a cultural history that accommodates the particularities of the sources of the Chinese imperial past.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128255889648,"sku":"9780791480151","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780791480151_p0.jpg?v=1763662988","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780791480151","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}