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Useful--but not usefully organized,
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This review is from: Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts: Festivals of China (Paperback)
This book offers a good, introductory survey of Chinese festivals--presented in the terse, economical style of a study guide. (And it's not much bigger.) I bought it (used) for pennies, and am delighted with it; at full price, I'd be less satisfied.
Some of this information is freely available through a web search of "chinese festivals and celebrations." What this book adds, wonderfully, are frequent notes on: > Historical roots of a festival > Variations in its observance, over time and location > Other associated elements and their significance (e.g., colors, numbers, foods, flowers, etc.) Where it falls down is in remembering that it's a reference: There are the requisite tables and lists that you'd expect in a guide--but the quality of organization, overall, is poor. In particular, the festivals, themselves, are grouped thematically (e.g., festivals of the living, festivals of the dead . . . "festivals of romance, and compassion, survival and marriage" <whew!>). I didn't find these useful distinctions--nor did the authors either, apparently, because there's never a discussion of what distinguishes one theme-group from another, and why a festival is included there. Book in hand, I still lack a ready answer on the sequence of the festivals and where they fall on the calendar. Minor points: About a dozen nice color plates in the center of the book--but most illustrations are small, black-and-white, and of poor quality. They seem less intended to inform, than to improve page design and break up the text. There's frequent use of pinyin--with no tone marks.
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A useful reference,
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This review is from: Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts: Festivals of China (Paperback)
This is a nice book, useful as a reference for all the major Chinese holidays.
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The most colorful, sensational, and joyous of all Chinese festivals is the Lunar New Year. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kitchen God, Lantern Festival, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Dragon Boat Festival, Eight Characters, Zhong Kui, Earthly Branches, People's Republic of China, Heavenly Stems, Jade Emperor, Moon Lady, Tian Hou, Grandfather Eight, Hungry Ghost Festival, Clear Brightness Festival, Cold Food Festival, Monkey King, United States, Yunnan Province, Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, Earth God New!
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The most colorful, sensational, and joyous of all Chinese festivals is the Lunar New Year. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kitchen God, Lantern Festival, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Dragon Boat Festival, Eight Characters, Zhong Kui, Earthly Branches, People's Republic of China, Heavenly Stems, Jade Emperor, Moon Lady, Tian Hou, Grandfather Eight, Hungry Ghost Festival, Clear Brightness Festival, Cold Food Festival, Monkey King, United States, Yunnan Province, Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, Earth God New!
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