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Title: Paper Horses
Author : David Leffman
Release Date : January 21, 2020
Genre: Art History,Books,Arts & Entertainment,
Pages : * pages
Size : 101985 KB

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Back in nineteenth-century China, “paper horses” – woodblock prints of folk gods, used for home worship or burned at special ceremonies – were made and sold in their millions. But, printed on cheap, insubstantial paper and often destroyed within hours of purchase, few have survived.
This album of seventy-nine prints surfaced in 2020 after years in storage, and bears mysterious similarities to collections made by missionaries Lewis Calvin Walmsley and Anne Goodrich in Beijing during the 1930s – just as both woodblock printing and the use of paper horses was dying out in China.
Though only touching on the thousands of known Chinese deities, Paper Horses: Woodblock Prints of Chinese Gods from 1930s Beijing offers an intriguing introduction to Chinese folk belief, with full-colour images and biographies for over seventy wealth and weather gods, fox spirits, deified warriors, bodhisattvas, patrons of industries, and even goddesses of smallpox and toilets.
David Leffman has been a regular visitor to China since 1985. A long-time guidebook writer for Rough Guides and Dorling Kindersley, his photographs and articles on Chinese history and culture have appeared in the South China Morning Post and The Diplomat. He’s also author of The Mercenary Mandarin, a biography of the nineteenth-century British adventurer in China, William Mesny.