Headsup for major updates to several posts in the light of Wu Ka-ming’s fine book Reinventing Chinese tradition, a valuable addition to the literature on Shaanbei— where she gives a nuanced appraisal of paper-cutting, bards, and spirit mediums under changing rural conditions since 2004:

• on Shaanbei-ology
• on rural bards
• and on the dreaded heritage flapdoodle!

Bards of Shaanbei https://stephenjones.blog/2018/06/23/bards-of-shaanbei/