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Inhalt: Contents: Introduction: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Cult of Confucius / Thomas A. Wilson -- 1. Ritualizing Confucius/Kongzi: The Family and State Cults of the Sage of Culture in Imperial China / Thomas A. Wilson -- 2. Destroying Confucius: Iconoclasm in the Confucian Temple / Deborah Sommer -- 3. Musical Confucianism: The Case of 'Jikong yuewu' / Joseph S. C. Lam -- 4. The Genesis of Kongzi in Ancient Narrative: The Figurative As Historical / Lionel M. Jensen -- 5. Varied Views of the Sage: Illustrated Narratives of the Life of Confucius / Julia K. Murray -- 6. The Cultural Politics of Autocracy: The Confucius Temple and Ming Despotism, 1368-1530 / Huang Chin-shing -- 7. The Kongs of Qufu: Power and Privilege in Late Imperial China / Abigail Lamberton -- 8. Knowledge, Organization, and Symbolic Capital: Two Temples to Confucius in Gansu / Jun Jing -- 9. The Confucius Temple Tragedy of the Cultural Revolution / Wang Liang.