English Language texts on nianhua:

  • Alekseev, V.M. The Chinese Gods of Wealth: a lecture delivered at the School of
          Oriental Studies, University of London, 26th of March 1926.
          London: School of Oriental Studies and The China Society, 1928.

  • Berliner, Nancy Zeng. Chinese Folk Arts: the small skills of carving insects.
          Boston: Little & Brown Co., 1986.

  • Day, Clarence. Chinese Peasant Cults (Shanghai, 1940)
          Taipei: Ch'eng Wen Publishing Co., 1974.

  • Flath, James. The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art and History in Rural North China.
          Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004.

  • Goodrich, Anne S. Peking Paper Gods: a look at home worship.
          Monumenta Serica Monograph Series XXIII.
          Nettetal: Steyler-Verlag, 1991.

  • Hung Chang-tai. "Repainting China: New Year Prints (Nianhua) and Peasant Resistance
          in the Early Years of the People's Republic."
          Comparative Studies in Society and History 42, no.4 (2000), 779-810.

  • Johnson, David and Po Sung-nian. Domesticated Deities and Auspicious Emblems.
          Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

  • Knapp, Ronald. China's Living Houses: symbols and household ornamentation.
          Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999.

  • Laing, Ellen Johnston. "Reform, Revolutionary, and Resistance Themes in Chinese
          Popular Prints, 1900-1940."
          Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 12, no. 2 (2000).

          Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints: Selections from the Muban
          Foundation Collection.
          Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002.

  • Lust, John. Chinese Popular Prints.
          Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.

  • McIntyre, Tanya. "Images of Women in Popular Prints in the Early Modern Period"
          in Antonia Finnane, et al (eds.). Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture.
          Clayton Australia: Monash Asia Institute, 1999: 58-80.

  • Pedersen, Bent. "Popular Pantheons in Old China."
          Journal of Oriental Studies 26 (1988), 28-59.

  • Rudova, Maria (V. Sobolev trans.). Chinese Popular Prints.
          Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1988.

  • Wachs, Iris. Half a Century of Chinese Woodblock Prints: from the Communist
          Revolution to the Open Door Policy and beyond.
          Israel: Museum of Art Ein Harod, 1999.

  • Wang Shucun. Paper Joss.
          Beijing: New World Press, 1992.

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