Bibliography

Selected Works on Nianhua in English

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.

Cheng, Wen-chien and Yanwen Jiang. Gods in My Home: Chinese Ancestor Portraits and Popular Prints. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 2019.

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

Dong, Madeline Yue. “Yangliuqing New Year’s Picture: the Fortunes of a Folk Tradition”, in James A. Cook (et al) eds. Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750-Present. Lanham MD, Lexington Books, 2014. 69-86.

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

“The Chinese Railroad View: Transportation Themes in Popular Print, 1873-1915.”Cultural Critique 58 (Fall 2004): 168-190.

“It’s a Wonderful Life”: Nianhua and Yuefenpai at the Dawn of the People’s Republic.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 16, 2 (Fall 2004): 123-59.

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

Huang, Hua. “Cityscape, Urban Nobodies and War: Modern Transformation of Nianhua in SuzhouShanghai”. Department of History, Western University, London ON, Canada. 2015.

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.

Divine Rule and Earthly Bliss: Popular Chinese Prints: the Collection of Gerd and Lottie Wallenstein. Berlin: Museum fur Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2010.

Lufkin, Felicity. Folk Art and Modern Culture in Republican China. Lanham MD, Lexington Books, 2016.

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.

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.