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This is the exhibition catalog of a show held at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley in 1991 as the culmination of the Chinese Popular Culture Project. This volume studies the popular values and beliefs of ordinary people in China through the colorful representational imagery of gods and demigods, heroes and heroines, plump babies and bearded sages, and auspicious symbols depicted on woodblock prints and papercuts. Collected by Po Sung-nien over the last forty years, these examples of folk art are a valuable source for the reconstruction of popular mentalities in premodern China. This books serves as a valuable primer of Chinese popular iconography.
Price: $25.00
Pages: 210
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: Chinese Popular Culture Project
Publication Date:
01 January 1992
ISBN: 9781557292056
Format: eBook
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