https://library.princeton.edu/eastasian/shadowfigures/
Overview
From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: The East Asian Library at Princeton has a set of over 2,000 pieces of Chinese shadow figures. Made in the Luanzhou 灤州 or Leting 樂亭 style popular in northeast China, to all appearances during the last years of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) or the early years of the Republican Period (1912-1949), they were acquired in the late 1920s for Guion Moore Gest (1864-1948), the founder of the Gest Collection, by his purveyor Irvin Van Gorder Gillis (1875-1948), residing in Peking. The collection was photographed in 2009 and made accessible online.
- Institution/Author: Princeton University
- Period: Modern,Premodern
- Geographic Focus: China
- Access: Open Access
Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎