Burning money : the material spirit of the Chinese lifeworld /

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 time...

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Main Author: Blake, C. Fred, 1942-2017 (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter, JSTOR (Online Service)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2011]
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2011]
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Shao qian : Zhongguo ren sheng huo shi jie zhong de wu zhi jing shen = Burning money : the material spirit of the Chinese lifeworld /
烧钱 : 中国人生活世界中的物质精神 = Burning money : the material spirit of the Chinese lifeworld /
烧钱 : 中国人生活世界中的物质精神 = Burning money : the material spirit of the Chinese lifeworld /
烧钱 : 中国人生活世界中的物质精神 = Burning money : the material spirit of the Chinese lifeworld /

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by Blake, C. Fred, 1942-2017
Published 2011

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