880-01 Supermarket of the dead : Burnt offerings in China & the cult of globalized consumption = Ming jian chao shi / edited by Wolfgang Scheppe for the Dresden State Art Collections.
Title pages for volumes 1 & 2 are in middle of book. Exhibition catalog. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Supermarket of the Dead - Proposition III", held at the Dresden State Art Collections, Royal Place, Dresden, March 14 - May 10, 2015. Translation of: Supermarket of the dead : Brandopfer in China und der Kult des globalisierten Konsums. Cologne : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, c2015. Four essays translated from German, two essays in the original English. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Vol. 1. Zhĭzhā paper shoes : the collection of Rosanna Wei-han Li, Hong Kong -- v. 2. Essays. In effigie : representational magic in the suprmarket of the dead / Wolfgang Scheppe ; The cult of the dead : paper offerings in the context of burial culture and ancester worship / Uta Werlich ; Ancester worship in China : afterlife conceptions and practice in the world of man / Friederike Assandri ; Burning money : the paper money custom in China and its modern fate / C. Fred Blake ; The Olga-Julia Wegener Collection : Chinese paper offerings at the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig / Peter Martin ; The objects in the Saxon collections : paper offerings from the ethnographic museums in Leipzig and Dresden / Dietmar Grundman, Petra Martin, Siegmar Nahser -- v. 3. Zhĭzhā paper products.
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