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Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950 : understanding Chaoben culture
- Title
- Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950 : understanding Chaoben culture / by Ronald Suleski.
- Author
- Suleski, Ronald Stanley
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
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- Description
- xix, 463 pages : illustrations (some color), color map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- China studies ; volume 39
- Uniform Title
- China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 39.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-4538
- ISBN
- 9789004361027
- 9004361022
- 9789004361034 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018010088
- 40028910390
- OCLC
- 1047524894
- Author
- Suleski, Ronald Stanley, author.
- Title
- Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950 : understanding Chaoben culture / by Ronald Suleski.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- China studies ; volume 39China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 39.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1644-1976
- Other Form:
- Online version: Suleski, Ronald Stanley. Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004361034 (DLC) 2018035488
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028910390
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-4538