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

by James A. Flath
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780774810340
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
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  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: GBP 32.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 468 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Printmaking & Stamping

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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