New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times
Publisher: The Chinese University Press
Published: March 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9789629960247
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Customs; Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; China; Anthropology - Cultural; Customs & Traditions; Holidays (non religious); Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism; 1644-1912; Chinese New Year; History; Social life and customs
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."