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1 online resource |
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Contextualizing Chaoben: on the popular manuscript culture of the late Qing and Republican period in China -- Apologia in Chaoben -- Written in the margins: reading into texts -- Teacher Xu: entering a classroom in late Qing China -- A Qing dynasty astrologer's predictions for the future -- Constructing the family in Republican China: Shandong in text: comma here 1944 -- Mr. Bai and Mr. Qian earn their living: considering two handwritten in text: without hyphen notebooks of matching couplets from China in the late Qing and early Republic -- The troublesome ghosts: part 1 -- The troublesome ghosts: part 2 |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Chaoben |
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China |
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History |
| Notes |
Knowledge Unlatched 102319 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books |
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English |
| Subject |
History.
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History
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history (discipline)
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Society & culture: general.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004361027 |
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9004361022 |
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