Domesticated deities and auspicious emblems : the iconography of everyday life in village China ; popular prints and papercuts from the collection of Po Sung-nien / Po Sung-nien and David Johnson.
Publisher:
Chinese Popular Culture ProjectUniversity of California,
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Library of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1991. Includes bibliographical references (page 205).
Contents:
Iconic prints: the gods of the Chinese peasant family -- The Stove God -- The Gods of Wealth -- Other gods -- Pantheons and ancestors -- Buddhist deities -- Mimetic prints and papercuts -- Door Gods and door prints -- Chung K'uei -- Auspicious prints -- Instructive prints -- Opera prints -- The mouse's wedding -- Papercuts.
Series:
Publications of the Chinese Popular Culture Project ; 2
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