I. POPULAR PRINTS Introduction The exquisite art form of Chinese New Year pictures surely reflects the importance of the Chinese New Year celebration, which is indeed the main festival on the Chinese calendar. Fortune-tellers have a busy time, and the temples are thronged with people praying for success in the coming year, and seeking advice on love, health and business. It is traditional to hang up posters or pictures and paste verses on strips of red paper to express all those urging wishes. Some of these pictures are surely exquisite works of art, especially those that were produced in the specialised print shops of Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Taohuawu in Suzhou and Yangjiabu in Shandong. The SOAS collection of popular prints holds many prints that were designed and engraved in these shops, such as calendars, door posters, and horizontal and vertical prints for wall decoration. One especially outstanding print is One circle of harmony (print number 105), probably executed in Suzhou or Yangzhou during the early Qing dynasty. This compilation is based on the provisional list including items put together by Peter Lam (items 2-49 and 51-60) in the late 1970s as well as on the more detailed descriptions of thirty-six prints by Yin Huang (items 4, 6, 7, 9, 22, 23, 39-44, 49, 53, 54, 59, 70, 73-77, 90-102, 106) in 1996. Their solid research on these certain parts of the SOAS popular prints surely facilitated my task in compiling the following outline. I have tried to complete their findings and describe the SOAS prints creating a standard framework (title in English-Chinese; basic data; print description and/or symbolism) that may be used by future researchers. Please note that I am responsible for all the mistakes left in this list and that the many gaps remaining still need to be filled.