New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times
Publisher: The Chinese University Press
Published: March 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789629961039
Subjects: Customs; Social & cultural anthropology; History - General History; History; History: World; China; Anthropology - General; Asia - General; Journalism; Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism
First sentence: In The Moon Year, their famous account of Chinese folk customs, Juliet Bredon and Igor Mitrophanow describe New Year celebrations as "a salvo of fire-crackers in an apotheosis of noise."