Domesticated Deities and Auspicious Emblems: An Iconography of Everyday Life in Village China
Po, Sung-nien, and David Johnson
Chinese Popular Culture Project 2
1992. 208 pp. (illustrated)
ISBN 0-9624327-I-7
$20.00
Contents
Preface—7
Introduction—9
Explanatory Note—19
Iconic Prints: The Gods of the Chinese Peasant Family
The Stove God—23
The Gods of Wealth—60
Other Gods—66
Pantheons and Ancestors—84
Buddhist Deities—96
Mimetic Prints and Papercuts
Door Gods and Door Prints—105
Chung K'uei—136
Auspicious Prints—148
Instructive Prints—162
Opera Prints—171
The Mouse's Wedding—181
Papercuts—191
Select Bibliography—205
Glossary—206
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