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The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China

The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China

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Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies

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ISBN10: 0774810343
ISBN13: 9780774810340
Publisher: Univ Of British Columbia
Published: Mar 15 2004
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
History and art come together in this definitive discussion of the Chinese woodblock print form of nianhua, literally New Year pictures. James Flath analyzes the role of nianhua in the home and later in the theatre and relates these artworks to the social, cultural, and political milieu of North China as it was between the late Qing dynasty and the early 1950s. Among the first studies in any field to treat folk art as historical text, this extraordinary account offers original insight into popular conceptions of domesticity, morality, gender, society, modernity, and the transformation of the genre as a propaganda tool under communism.

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