Chinese Hospitality (Plan of a book).
Introduction.
1.
Hospitality
as a device of self-identification and of construction of the Other.
2.
Hospitality
as a means of communication with the Other.
3.
Levels
of hospitality: private, institutional, governmental.
4.
Dimensions
of hospitality: religious, social, political, cultural.
5.
Models
of hospitality: equally or unequally reciprocal, momentary or durable.
6.
Western
Hospitality: virtue, moral imperative and reality.
7.
Chinese
Hospitality: Preliminary assumptions.
Chapter
II. The Deity as a Guest.
1.
Ancestral
cult.
2.
Shang
rituals of hosting spirits of the ancestors and of natural forces.
3.
Transformation
of ancestral rituals during the Zhou period.
4.
Institutionalization
of ancestral worship: formation of ritual canons under the early Han Empire.
5.
Inviting
the deity and expelling the devil: exorcist practices.
Chapter
III. Private and Institutional Hospitality.
1.
Private
hospitality in ancient
2.
Obligations
of hosts and guests.
3.
Migration
and hospitality.
4.
Creation
of the guesthouse: governmental managing of human traffic in the multi-state
system and under the early Empire.
Chapter IV. Hospitality of the State.
1.
Hospitality
as a means of constructing sovereignty.
2.
Royal
audiences and assemblies. Meetings of rulers of states.
3.
Diplomatic
envoys in the multi-state system (Springs and Autumns and
4.
“Guest”
officials in the state service.
5.
Four
“hospital lords” of the Warring States: hospitality and political opposition.
6.
Hospitality
towards the chased and the asylum right.
7.
Hospitality
versus hostility: non-Huaxia peoples as “guests” of the Chinese.
Chapter V. Hospitality and Civilization.
1.
Ancient
Chinese model of hospitality and its implications for the development of the
Chinese society and state.
2.
Chinese
ethics of hospitality.
3.
Hospitality
as a mirror: the guest as the “third one” in the self-reflection of the ancient
Chinese.
4.
On
the way to the modernity: directions for further investigation.
Appendix: Dictionary of Chinese concepts of hospitality.
Index
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