Until death do us part / Thomas Sauvin.
- Sauvin, Thomas.
- Date:
- 2015
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Shuang xi / Su Wen.
Description
"Until Death Do Us Part focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of an unprecedented ingenuousness. This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand. These photos come from the Beijing Silvermine project, an archive of half a million negatives salvaged over the years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing."--Publisher's website.
Publication/Creation
[Beijing] : Jiazazhi Press, 2015.
Physical description
[108] pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 53 x 83 x21 mm.
Contributors
Edition
2nd edition.
Notes
Paperback, hardcover.
Book is housed in a paper cigarette box.
Gold on edges of the text.
"Published by Jiazazhi Press in a second edition of 2000 China, September 2015"--Colophon.
First edition of 1000 copies.
Language note
Text in Chinese and English.
Languages
Where to find it
Location Access Awaiting cataloguing for Wellcome Collection
Permanent link
Identifiers
ISBN
- 9789881263100
- 9881263107