Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700

ISBN: 9780199844883 出版年：2012 页码：289 Yu, Jimmy Oxford University Press

Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of certain cultural expectations.