Lot 198 - Antique 1925 Chinese Woodblock-Printed Moral Tract Shanshu 善書 Promoting Virtue And Cause-And-Effect Retribution, Republic Of China Era, Note Poor Condition (Identification Informed By Google Translate And A.I.) Victor_t exposing the underlying cloth binding

exposing the underlying cloth binding

Pre-Auction Notes: Damage and loss to porcelain to lower right of sign

Hanaford's 1882 book entitled Daughters of America

including a couple chips in the yellow paint of the eagle's beak and in the faux wood base

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Lot 198 - Antique 1925 Chinese Woodblock-Printed Moral Tract Shanshu 善書 Promoting Virtue And Cause-And-Effect Retribution, Republic Of China Era, Note Poor Condition (Identification Informed By Google Translate And A.I.) Victor_t exposing the underlying cloth bindingAntique Chinese stitched paper bound woodblock printed book dated to the winter month of the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925). Printed on traditional handmade paper with black ink text in vertical format and an orange brown wrapper. The work appears to be a Shanshu , or moral tract, teaching Confucian and Buddhist principles of virtue, righteousness, filial piety, and karmic cause and effect (yin guo bao ying). Such texts were distributed