Social Life Of The Chinese
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Affianced Husband
ancestor veneration
Ancestral Tablet
Author_Justus Doolittle
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Chinese ethnography
Chinese social life
Deep Red
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Fac Simile
historical Chinese daily life customs
Justus Doolittle
Natal Day
Paper Man
Pea Nuts
popular culture
Qing dynasty society
religious customs
religious syncretism
ritual practices
traditional festivals
Water Falls
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138405844
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 2005. This is the most complete and detailed account of the traditional domestic and daily life of the Chinese in the mid-nineteenth century. Writing in the 1860's, Doolittle concentrates on social and religious customs, revealing the people through their practices and material culture which he observed for over fourteen years. Colourful, exotic and compelling, this is a more telling portrait than any history or encyclopedia, an innovative tour de force of popular culture, and a classic ahead of its time. Doolittle lived midway between Shanghai and Canton, the origin of the overseas Chinese diaspora. The world he describes here may have vanished in mainland China, but endures in Chinatowns and Chinese homes around the world.
