While the contemporary Chinese woodblock prints in the Multiple Impressions exhibition represent the latest developments in the long history of the printed image in China, a different type of woodblock print was produced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in commercial workshops for the mass market. These prints depicted a wide range of subjects, including protective guardians, auspicious images, tutelary household gods, Buddhist and Taoist deities, illustrations of stories from history, literature, and opera, and scenes of everyday life, as well as moral lessons and didactic narratives. Some were posted in houses at the time of the New Year; others were the focus of ceremonies performed at different times throughout the year. This talk by noted scholar Ellen Johnston Laing will draw on examples from UMMA’s and other museum collections to take a look at the subjects depicted in popular prints, their visual and artistic characteristics, their physical contexts, and the traditional ceremonies associated with them.