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04092aam a2200385 i 4500 001 28B181C0550D11E9884C074097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190402010148 008 180627s2018 ne ab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018010088 020 $a 9004361022 020 $a 9789004361027 035 $a (OCoLC)1047524894 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d OCLCF $d HUA $d YDX $d ERASA $d OHX $d DLC $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a DS754.14 S85 2018 100 1 $a Suleski, Ronald Stanley, $e author. 245 10 $a Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950 : $b understanding Chaoben culture / $c by Ronald Suleski. 264 1 $a Leiden ; $b Brill, $c [2018] 300 $a xix, 463 pages : $b illustrations (some color), color map ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a China studies ; $v volume 39 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 8 $a In this 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. 0Suleski 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. 651 0 $a China $x Social life and customs $y 1644-1912. 651 0 $a China $x Social life and customs $y 1912-1949. 651 0 $a China $x Social life and customs $y 1949-1976. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Suleski, Ronald Stanley. $t Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950. $d Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] $z 9789004361034 $w (DLC) 2018035488 880 $6 520-00 $a "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 ææ¬) 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 830 0 $a China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; $v v. 39. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190402023444.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=28B181C0550D11E9884C074097128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search