Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950, understanding Chaoben culture, By Ronald Suleski
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Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950, understanding Chaoben culture, By Ronald Suleski
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionariesbibliography
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1047572066
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By Ronald Suleski
Series statement
China studies, volume 39Open Access e-BooksAsian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390799
Sub title
understanding Chaoben culture
Summary
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 抄本) 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.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 1944 -- Mr. Bai and Mr. Qian Earn Their Living: Considering Two Handwritten Notebooks of Matching Couplets from China in the Late Qing and Early Republic -- The Troublesome Ghosts: Part 1 -- The Troublesome Ghosts: Part 2 -- Concluding Remarks -- A List of Chaoben in the Author's Personal Collection Used in This Study -- Various Categories of Chaoben Not Discussed in the Text -- Korean and Japanese Chaoben -- Full Translation of Fifty Days to Encounter the Five Spirits -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index
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