Intro -- Public Memory in Early China -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Conventions -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Han memorial culture -- SECTION 1: "Repeated Inking" and the backdrop of a manuscript culture -- SECTION 2: "Continuous Chanting" and the backdrop of an oral performance culture -- SECTION 3: Inking and Chanting share their secret of longevity -- PART I: Names as positioning the self -- SECTION 4: The ancestor's given names as locative markers -- SECTION 5: The ancestor's surname as a spatial marker -- SECTION 6: Following the named lineage back through time
PART II: Age as positioning the self -- SECTION 7: The age of childhood -- SECTION 8: The age of adulthood -- SECTION 9: The age of advanced years -- SECTION 10: The age of death -- SECTION 11: The age of afterlife -- PART III: Kinship as positioning the self -- SECTION 12: Weakening personal agency -- SECTION 13: Strengthening interpersonal bonds -- SECTION 14: A dynamic relationship net -- PART IV: The tangible tools of positioning the self -- SECTION 15: Calling cards and the trafficking of names -- SECTION 16: The ancestral shrine and its tools of remembrance
SECTION 17: The cemetery and its tools of remembrance -- SECTION 18: Commemorative portraiture as a tool of remembrance -- PART V: The intangible tools of positioning the self -- SECTION 19: Reduction -- SECTION 20: Conversion -- SECTION 21: Association -- Conclusion: "Here is where the Earl of Shao rested" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE MONOGRAPH SERIES
