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January 14, 2009
Tracy Miller The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. 265 pp.; 40 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780674021534)
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The Memorial Shrines ritual complex of Jinci in Shanxi province is located at a sacred site where three mountain springs emerge to sustain the surrounding land and people. The Jinci complex is examined in The Divine Nature of Power through multiple methodological perspectives stemming from modern fields of archaeology; anthropology; art and architectural history; and political, social, and religious history. Through a careful reading and interpretation of surviving textual and physical materials, Miller reconstructs part...