Contextualizing Chaoben: on the popular manuscript culture of the late Qing and Republican period in China -- Apologia in Chaoben -- Written in the margins: reading into texts -- Teacher Xu: entering a classroom in late Qing China -- A Qing dynasty astrologer's predictions for the future -- Constructing the family in Republican China: Shandong in text: comma here 1944 -- Mr. Bai and Mr. Qian earn their living: considering two handwritten in text: without hyphen notebooks of matching couplets from China in the late Qing and early Republic -- The troublesome ghosts: part 1 -- The troublesome ghosts: part 2.

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"作者共討論了三十個專題的問題 : Bazi 八字, Jiri 吉日, Jie Xing 接星, fengshui 風水, xiangmian 相面, suanming 算命, chouqian 抽簽, shaozhi 燒紙, duoyang 躲殃, ji Zaoshen 祭灶神, da cutan 打醋炭, Dao Huangshen 禱蝗神, ji Ma Wang 祭馬王, ji huhun 祭弧魂, po diyu 破地獄, diaoshen 調神, jiu sao 酒 掃, xian yang 獻羊, guan sha 關煞, xiu Dao cheng Fo 修道成佛, huodan 活丹, die hun 跌魂, duosi ying 剁死嬰, Fo Dao chizhai 佛道持齋, quqin 娶親, zisha 自殺, jian yang jian ming 賤養賤名, baoquan ruzi 保全孺子, xi dao yu 析禱雨, chaoshan baitai 朝山拜台."

Keywords: Fortune-telling, birthdays, auspicious dates, fengshui (geomancy), physiognomy, avoiding disasters, Kitchen God worship, jealousy, suicide. etc.
Cover illustration: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Courant 7147.
明末清初耶穌會思想文獻匯編 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第21冊.

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