The cult of happiness : nianhua, art, and history in rural north China / James A. Flath

Author:: Flath, James A.
Published:: Vancouver : UCB Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2004]
Copyright Date:: ©2004
Physical Description:: xii, 195 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

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Contents:

The production of print culture in north China -- Home and domesticity -- State and society -- Retelling history through the narrative print -- Print and the cosmopolitan mystique -- The politics of the popular -- Exorcising modernity.

Subject(s):

Wood-engraving, Chinese—19th century
Wood-engraving, Chinese—20th century
Narrative art—China
Art and society—China

ISBN:

0295984082 (hardback : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index.

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