Daily Life for the Common People of China / Ronald Suleski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suleski, Ronald Stanley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this book Ronald Suleski introduces a new category of source material, ''chaoben'' ??, for understanding the lives of China's semi-literate masses before 1950. It links the documents now flooding the antiques markets in China, with the hopes and fears of China's people at the end of the pre-modern era.

Contents:

1 Contextualizing Chaoben: On the Popular Manuscript Culture of the Late Qing and Republican Period in China p. 11

2 Apologia in Chaoben p. 65

3 Written in the Margins: Reading into Texts p. 110

4 Teacher Xu: Entering a Classroom in Late Qing China p. 143

5 A Qing Dynasty Astrologer's Predictions for the Future p. 173

6 Constructing the Family in Republican China: Shandong 1944 p. 199

7 Mr. Bai and Mr. Qian Earn Their Living: Considering Two Handwritten Notebooks of Matching Couplets from China in the Late Qing and Early Republic p. 226

8 The Troublesome Ghosts: Part 1 p. 273

9 The Troublesome Ghosts: Part 2 p. 327.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102319

ISBN:

9789004361027

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access