Domesticated Deities and Auspicious Emblems
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Domesticated Deities and Auspicious Emblems

The Iconography of Everyday Life in Village China

  1. 213 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Domesticated Deities and Auspicious Emblems

The Iconography of Everyday Life in Village China

About this book

This is the exhibition catalog of a show held at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley in 1991 as the culmination of the Chinese Popular Culture Project. This volume studies the popular values and beliefs of ordinary people in China through the colorful representational imagery of gods and demigods, heroes and heroines, plump babies and bearded sages, and auspicious symbols depicted on woodblock prints and papercuts. Collected by Po Sung-nien over the last forty years, these examples of folk art are a valuable source for the reconstruction of popular mentalities in premodern China. This books serves as a valuable primer of Chinese popular iconography.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notes to this edition
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Explanatory note
  9. Iconic Prints
  10. Mimetic Prints and Papercuts
  11. Select Bibliography
  12. Glossary
  13. Back cover

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