Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Ronald Suleski
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   39
Weight:   0.883kg
ISBN:  

9789004361027

ISBN 10:   9004361022
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   11 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Contextualizing Chaoben: On the Popular Manuscript Culture of the Late Qing and Republican Period in China 2 Apologia in Chaoben 3 Written in the Margins: Reading into Texts 4 Teacher Xu: Entering a Classroom in Late Qing China 5 A Qing Dynasty Astrologer’s Predictions for the Future 6 Constructing the Family in Republican China: Shandong 1944 7 Mr. Bai and Mr. Qian Earn Their Living: Considering Two Hand-written Notebooks of Matching Couplets from China in the Late Qing and Early Republic 8 The Troublesome Ghosts: Part 1 9 The Troublesome Ghosts: Part 2 10 Concluding Remarks Appendix A. A List of Chaoben in the Author’s Personal Collection Used in This Study Appendix B. Various Categories of Chaoben Not Discussed in the Text Appendix C. Korean and Japanese Chaoben Appendix D. Full Translation of Fifty Days to Encounter the Five Spirits Bibliography Index

Reviews

""Suleski is to be commended for his collecting efforts, which have saved a great number of important texts that might otherwise have been relegated to the rubbish bin. In documenting and describing these materials he does a service to the field and highlights a corpus of texts that will doubtless be the source of continued research."" -Nathan Vedal, Washington University, in East Asian Publishing and Society, Vol 9 (2019) p. 191-203 ""The volume's greatest worth lies in its novelty: Suleski is right to note that the study of chāoběn as a means of better understanding the lives of people is a scholarly methodology that 'almost does not exist.' Those with an interest in Chinese religion, especially the late Qīng and Republican period, have much to gain from it."" -Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, in Religious Studies Review, Vol 47 (2021), p. 125

Suleski is to be commended for his collecting efforts, which have saved a great number of important texts that might otherwise have been relegated to the rubbish bin. In documenting and describing these materials he does a service to the field and highlights a corpus of texts that will doubtless be the source of continued research. -Nathan Vedal, Washington University, in East Asian Publishing and Society, Vol 9 (2019) p. 191-203

"""Suleski is to be commended for his collecting efforts, which have saved a great number of important texts that might otherwise have been relegated to the rubbish bin. In documenting and describing these materials he does a service to the field and highlights a corpus of texts that will doubtless be the source of continued research."" -Nathan Vedal, Washington University, in East Asian Publishing and Society, Vol 9 (2019) p. 191-203 ""The volume's greatest worth lies in its novelty: Suleski is right to note that the study of chāoběn as a means of better understanding the lives of people is a scholarly methodology that 'almost does not exist.' Those with an interest in Chinese religion, especially the late Qīng and Republican period, have much to gain from it."" -Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, in Religious Studies Review, Vol 47 (2021), p. 125"

Author Information

Ronald Suleski (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974) is currently Professor of History at Suffolk University, Boston, and Director of the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies there. Among his books is Civil Government in Warlord China: Tradition, Modernization, and Manchuria (Lang Publishing, 2002).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions