Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing

During the Han period (202 B.C.- 220 A.D.), funerary texts were added to tombs in China. These were intended to serve as a means of communication between this world and the next. “Begräbnistexte im Sozialen Wandel der Han-Zeit” systematically analyses funerary texts from about 180 tombs and thus shows the development of the concept of the afterlife in connection with social change in the Han period.