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Chinese Paper Offerings
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Author : Roderick Cave
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
Chinese Paper Offerings written by Roderick Cave and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
From simple pieces decorated with a square of gilded foil, to beautiful New Year prints, and detailed models of houses, ships, and cars, paper offerings today take many forms. This book surveys the breadth of Chinese ceremonial paper products, exploring their creation, distribution, and characteristics. The author describes the traditional process of paper-making, as well as contemporary uses of common papers found on the Mainland and in Chinese communities worldwide. Once criticized as remnants of a superstitious past, paper charms now play a renewed role in Chinese life, providing visible evidence of a continuity of belief across the centuries. For the reader interested in paper and paper-making, as well as the student of Chinese religion and spirituality, this book reveals the beauty of these fascinating artefacts of living folk art.
For Gods Ghosts And Ancestors
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Author : Janet Lee Scott
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-01
For Gods Ghosts And Ancestors written by Janet Lee Scott and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-01 with Religion categories.
Offerings of various kinds – food, incense, paper money and figures – have been central to Chinese culture for millennia, and as a public, visual display of spiritual belief, they are still evident today in China and in Chinatowns around the world. Using Hong Kong as a case study, Janet Scott looks at paper offerings from every conceivable angle – how they are made, sold, and used. Her comprehensive investigation touches on virtually every aspect of Chinese popular religion as it explores the many forms of these intricate objects, their manufacture, their significance, and their importance in rituals to honor gods, care for ancestors, and contend with ghosts. Throughout For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors, paper offerings are presented as a vibrant and living tradition expressing worshippers' respect and gratitude for the gods, as well as love and concern for departed family members. Ranging from fake paper money to paper furniture, servant dolls, cigarettes, and toiletries – all multihued and artfully constructed – paper offerings are intended to provide for the needs of those in the spirit world. Readers are introduced to the variety of paper offerings and their uses in worship, in assisting worshippers with personal difficulties, and in rituals directed to gods, ghosts, and ancestors. We learn of the manufacture and sale of paper goods, life in paper shops, the training of those who make paper offerings, and the symbolic and artistic dimensions of the objects. Finally, the book considers the survival of this traditional craft, the importance of flexibility and innovation, and the role of compassion and filial piety in the use of paper offerings.
Burning Devotion
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Author : Jat Leng Low
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Burning Devotion written by Jat Leng Low and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Ceremonial objects categories.
Celestial Art
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Celestial Art written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Art objects, Taoist categories.
Catalogus bij een tentoonstelling van Chinese rituele papieren gewaden (bestemd om als offergave aan de goden te worden verbrand), ritueel borduurwerk en operakostuums, vervaardigd in de periode 1920-1960 in Zuid-China.
Chinese Paper Offerings
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Author : Roderick Cave
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
Chinese Paper Offerings written by Roderick Cave and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
From simple pieces decorated with a square of gilded foil, to beautiful New Year prints, and detailed models of houses, ships, and cars, paper offerings today take many forms. This book surveys the breadth of Chinese ceremonial paper products, exploring their creation, distribution, and characteristics. The author describes the traditional process of paper-making, as well as contemporary uses of common papers found on the Mainland and in Chinese communities worldwide. Once criticized as remnants of a superstitious past, paper charms now play a renewed role in Chinese life, providing visible evidence of a continuity of belief across the centuries. For the reader interested in paper and paper-making, as well as the student of Chinese religion and spirituality, this book reveals the beauty of these fascinating artefacts of living folk art.
Chinese Religion And Familism
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Author : Jordan Paper
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-10-03
Chinese Religion And Familism written by Jordan Paper and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with History categories.
Reflecting on over half a century of study on Chinese culture, Jordan Paper explores new ways of approaching religion in China. Moving away from using Christianity as a model for examination, which has led to considerable misunderstandings between China and the West, Paper instead applies the paradigm of Familism to Chinese religion. By looking through the lens of Familism, which emphasises the importance of the family unit, Paper argues that we can understand the basis of Chinese culture, society, government, and religion. In the book, Paper explains how, when and why Familism appears in the development of human culture in the Neolithic period, as well as its ramifications in more complex societies, using the imperial Chinese state as an example. The discussion in the book includes how the Chinese state can be understood as a religious institution; the role of spirit possession; the relationship of other religions in China to Chinese Religion, including Buddhism, Daoism and Judaism; and the issue of freedom of religion in contemporary China. Chinese Religion and Familism not only challenges the discipline's perception of Chinese religion, but all of the religions of East Asia, indigenous sub-Saharan African religions, Polynesian Religion, and elsewhere.
The Chinese Repository
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Author : Elijah Coleman Bridgman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
The Chinese Repository written by Elijah Coleman Bridgman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with China categories.
Chinese American Death Rituals
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Author : Sue Fawn Chung
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2005
Chinese American Death Rituals written by Sue Fawn Chung and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
They have looked to individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment for this resolution. This volume expertly describes and analyzes cultural retention and transformation in the after-death rituals of Chinese American communities."--Jacket.
Burning Money
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Author : C. Fred Blake
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2011-09-30
Burning Money written by C. Fred Blake and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-30 with History categories.
For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things—most often money—for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as ever. Burning Money explores the cultural logic of this common practice while addressing larger anthropological questions concerning the nature of value. The heart of the work integrates Chinese and Western thought and analytics to develop a theoretical framework that the author calls a “materialist aesthetics.” This includes consideration of how the burning of paper money meshes with other customs in China and around the world. The work examines the custom in contemporary everyday life, its origins in folklore and history, as well as its role in common rituals, in the social formations of dynastic and modern times, and as a “sacrifice” in the act of consecrating the paper money before burning it. Here the author suggests a great divide between the modern means of cultural reproduction through ideology and reification, with its emphasis on nature and realism, and previous pre-capitalist means through ritual and mystification, with its emphasis on authenticity. The final chapters consider how the burning money custom has survived its encounter with the modern global system and internet technology. Innovative and original in its interpretation of a common ritual in Chinese popular religion, Burning Money will be welcomed by scholars and students of Chinese religion as well as comparative religion specialists and anthropologists interested in contemporary social theory.
The Life Of Paper
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Author : Sharon Luk
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018
The Life Of Paper written by Sharon Luk and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Social Science categories.
Introduction : the life of paper -- The inventions of China -- Imagined genealogies (for all who cannot arrive) -- "Detained alien enemy mail : examined"--Censorship and the/work of art, where they barbed the/fourth corner open -- Ephemeral value and disused commodities -- Uses of the profane