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China -- Social life and customs.

 Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Chinese New Year posters

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113561736]
Identifier: 4764
Scope and content

Posters depicting arts and crafts with a Spring Festival theme, from different parts of China. The tag reads (in Chinese): "Celebrate a great Chinese New Year." They were published by Huang Yongsong Publishing House: Han Sheng Magazine in Taipei, December 1993.

Dates: 1993.

Tʹung Shen papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938909]
Identifier: 2220
Scope and content

Reminiscences entitled "An Autobiographical Study of a Chinese Family" concern the writer's boyhood experiences and attitudes in Soochow, Peiping, and rural China, 1911-1933, emphasizing family traditions, ancient ceremonies and superstitions, and the educational system, written while he was a graduate student at Cornell residing with Professor and Mrs. Dwight Sanderson of Ithaca, New York. Also includes photographs, and a monograph on ichthyology by Shen.

Dates: 1938-1939.

Trades and occupations of the Chinese etchings

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065488383]
Identifier: 4981
Scope and content

Twenty five original etchings on native Chinese paper representing the various trades and occupations of the Chinese.

Dates: [ca. 1820]