Burning Money : : The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld / / C. Fred Blake.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 illus. |
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