The cult of happiness: paper gods, popular culture, and revolution in rural North China

Since the late Ming Dynasty the Shandong village of Yangjiabu has been a major production centre for the highly expressive and symbolically rich works of art known as TSfew Year's wood-block prints', or nianhua. Being mass produced by the millions of copies annually and distributed thro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flath, James Alexander
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4494