| Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives Subjects: Inscriptions -- China; Epitaphs -- China; China -- Biography; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- China; Burial -- China; China -- Social life and customs -- Sources; Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased's biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors' longing for the dead. These epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children--people who are not well documented in more conventional sources such as dynastic histories and local gazetteers. Patricia Ebrey is Williams Family Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington. Ping Yao is professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles. Cong Ellen Zhang is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. The other translators are Beverly Bossler , Timothy Davis , Alexei Kamran Ditter , Yongtao Du , Grace Fong , R. Kent Guy , Mark Halperin , Xing Hang , Martin W. Huang , Tomoyasu Iiyama , Jen-der Lee , Weijing Lu , Lance Pursey , Anna Shields , Man Xu , and Jolan Yi . |