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Researches into Chinese superstitions, by Henry Doré, S.J. ;

Dore, Henri, Kennelly, M., tr · 1926 · Shanghai, Túsewei Printing Press · 7 pictures

A Jesuit missionary's survey of Chinese folk religion, compiled by Henri Doré and translated by M. Kennelly, printed at the Túsewei (Tushanwan) press in Shanghai in 1926 for Western missionaries and scholars of Chinese custom. Flat colour lithographic plates, captioned in French and English, show wedding rites, red-and-gold ancestral tablets, lucky-child charm prints with patterned borders, and grids of small hybrid animal demons.

Folklore · Superstition · Magic

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