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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Vivien Sung |
| ISBN: | 081183526X 9780811835268 |
| OCLC Number: | 52518317 |
| Language Note: | English and Chinese. |
| Description: | 255 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm. |
| Contents: | Luck -- Prosperity -- Longevity -- Double happiness -- Wealth. |
| Responsibility: | by Vivien Sung ; Chinese translation by You Shan Tang ; color photographs by Richard Weinstein. |
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Graphic designer Sung's book belongs to the relatively new class of small, sensuously crafted books meant to be pleasing to the hand and eye as well as to the mind. Her contribution to the genre takes for its subject the Chinese concepts of luck, prosperity, happiness, and wealth: she discusses each concept, as well as the varied legends that surround them, in Chinese and English; for each symbol of each concept there are pictograms, photographs, and other illustrations. Sung's distinctive way with design is evident from the delightful, brilliantly red and yellow pages. her writing is clear and engaging; her subject is too-little understood in the West. Highly recommended for all collections. -Library Journal Read more...
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