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Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China.
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Chinese culture was a performance culture, & ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, & extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China.

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World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti
Performance - When someone is presenting a form of entertainment, also how well someone is doing within a role.

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