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1 online resource. |
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China studies ; volume 39 |
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China Studies ; 39.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contextualizing Chaoben: on the popular manuscript culture of the late Qing and Republican period in China -- Apologia in Chaoben -- Written in the margins: reading into texts -- Teacher Xu: entering a classroom in late Qing China -- A Qing dynasty astrologer's predictions for the future -- Constructing the family in Republican China: Shandong in text: comma here 1944 -- Mr. Bai and Mr. Qian earn their living: considering two handwritten in text: without hyphen notebooks of matching couplets from China in the late Qing and early Republic -- The troublesome ghosts: part 1 -- The troublesome ghosts: part 2. |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode |
| Summary |
"In this exciting book, Ronald Suleski introduces daily life for the common people of China in the century from 1850 to 1950. They were semi-literate, yet they have left us written accounts of their hopes, fears, and values. They have left us the hand-written manuscripts (chaoben ??) now flooding the antiques markets in China. These documents represent a new and heretofore overlooked category of historical sources. Suleski gives a detailed explanation of the interaction of chaoben with the lives of the people. He offers examples of why they were so important to the poor laboring masses: people wanted horoscopes predicting their future, information about the ghosts causing them headaches, a few written words to help them trade in the rural markets, and many more examples are given. The book contains a special appendix giving the first complete translation into English of a chaoben describing the ghosts and goblins that bedeviled the poor working classes"-- Provided by publisher. |
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China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912.
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China -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1949.
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China -- Social life and customs -- 1949-1976.
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Chine -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1644-1912.
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Chine -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1912-1949.
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Chine -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1949-1976.
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Society & culture: general
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Manners and customs
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China
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1644-1976
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Suleski, Ronald Stanley. Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004361027 (DLC) 2018010088 |
| ISBN |
9789004361034 (E-book) |
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9004361030 (E-book) |
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9789004361027 (electronic bk.) |
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9004361022 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004361034. DOI |
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AU@ 000063696780 |
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