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.

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ISBN

  • 9789881263100
  • 9881263107