Of Tripod and Palate
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Of Tripod and Palate

Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China

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Of Tripod and Palate

Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China

About this book

Attitudes toward food and commensality constituted a central fiber in the social, religious, and political fabric of ancient Chinese society. The offering of sacrifices, the banqueting of guests, and the ritual preparation, prohibition or consumption of food and drink were central elements in each of China's three main religious traditions: the Classicist (Confucian) tradition, religious Daoism, and Buddhism. What links late Shang and Zhou bronze vessels to Buddhist dietary codes or Daoist recipes for immortality is a poignant testimony that culinary activity - fasting and feasting - governed not only human relationships but also fermented the communication between humans and the spirit world. In Of Tripod and Palate leading scholars examine the relationship between secular and religious food culture in ancient China from various perspectives.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9781403963376
eBook ISBN
9781403979278
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Asian History
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. One: Moonshine and Millet: Feasting and Purification Rituals in Ancient China
  6. Two: Food and Philosophy in Early China
  7. Three: When Princes Awake in Kitchens: Zhuangzi's Rewriting of a Culinary Myth
  8. Four: The Offering of Food and the Creation of Order: The Practice of Sacrifice in Early China
  9. Five: Eating Better than Gods and Ancestors
  10. Six: A Taste of Happiness: Contextualizing Elixirs in Baopuzi
  11. Seven: Feasting Without the Victuals: The Evolution of the Daoist Communal Kitchen
  12. Eight: Pleasure, Prohibition, and Pain: Food and Medicine in Traditional China
  13. Nine: Buddhist Vegetarianism in China
  14. Ten: Buddhism, Alcohol, and Tea in Medieval China
  15. Eleven: The Beef Taboo and the Sacrificial Structure of Late Imperial Chinese Society
  16. About the Contributors
  17. Index