24 Mar 2004

The Nianhua Gallery- woodblock prints of pre-modern rural China
Department of History, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Self-description: "Most of the prints found on this site are reprints - meaning that they were printed in modern times from wooden printing blocks that were in use during the early part of the 20th century. The prints, therefore, date from the 1980s and 90s, but they do accurately reflect much older designs and themes. The prints originate with the traditional nianhua [New Year woodblock prints - ed.] printing centres of Yangjiabu in Shandong province, Zhuxianzhen in Henan, Fengxiang in Shaanxi and Mianzhu in Sichuan."
Site contents: (1) Stove Gods; (2) Door Gods; (3) Honour, Wealth & Glory; (4) Theatre & History; (5) Customs, Folklore & Social Values; (6) Auspicious Images; (7) New Nianhua; (8) Bibliography; (9) Links.
URL http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/history/nianhua/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract].
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold, forwarded by Hanno E. Lecher (contact via http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30