Burning Money: The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld 9780824860103
For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable th
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English Pages 288 Year 2011
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Chiasm
Chapter 2. Endless Scroll
Chapter 3. Origins
Chapter 4. Liturgy
Chapter 5. Ideology
Chapter 6. Sacrifice
Chapter 7. Ghost Bills
Chapter 8. Burlesque
Chapter 9. Value
A Postscript on the Grain of Sand
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
