Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950 : understanding Chaoben culture
題名:
Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950 : understanding Chaoben culture
China studies ;
China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
作者:
Suleski, Ronald Stanley, author.
ISBN（國際標準書號）:
9789004361027
稽核項:
xix, 463 pages ; 25 cm.
叢書:
China studies ; volume 39.
China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 39.
內容:
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.
摘要:
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.
書目索引附錄等註:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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npmlib 10802381 DS754.14 S85 ysh