Daily Life for the Common People of China, 1850 to 1950

Understanding Chaoben Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36102-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: China Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suleski, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Leben & Brauch, Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Contextualizing Chaoben: On the Popular Manuscript Culture of the Late Qing and Republican Period in China

2 Apologia in Chaoben

3 Written in the Margins: Reading into Texts

4 Teacher Xu: Entering a Classroom in Late Qing China

5 A Qing Dynasty Astrologer’s Predictions for the Future

6 Constructing the Family in Republican China: Shandong 1944

7 Mr. Bai and Mr. Qian Earn Their Living: Considering Two Hand-written Notebooks of Matching Couplets from China in the Late Qing and Early Republic

8 The Troublesome Ghosts: Part 1

9 The Troublesome Ghosts: Part 2

10 Concluding Remarks

Appendix A. A List of Chaoben in the Author’s Personal Collection Used in This Study
Appendix B. Various Categories of Chaoben Not Discussed in the Text
Appendix C. Korean and Japanese Chaoben
Appendix D. Full Translation of Fifty Days to Encounter the Five Spirits
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald Suleski (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974) is currently Professor of History at Suffolk University, Boston, and Director of the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies there. Among his books is Civil Government in Warlord China: Tradition, Modernization, and Manchuria (Lang Publishing, 2002).