借助图史互证，解读民俗图像的"历史物质性"，有可能为政治文化变革与生产生活发展等历史逻辑的阐释，提供一些民本的图像证据。现存美国哥伦比亚大学的中国"纸神专藏"，目前中文学界尚无介绍。通过对这一珍贵特藏进行整体考察研究，且选择民国政府颁布的《神祠存废标准》作为解读该项特藏的文化背景，意欲以民俗图像为佐证，追溯上个世纪初中国在历史转型期所遭遇的国家意志与民间信仰之间的紧张与平衡。

Folk images can be interpreted as "historical material" with the mutual illustration of pictures and history. This may provide folk pictorial evidences for explaining the historical logic of political and cultural revolutions, and the development of production and life. The special collection of Chinese paper gods at Columbia University has not yet been introduced in the Chinese academia. Regarding the "Standard for Shrine Preservation or Demolition" issued by the government of the Republic of China as the cultural background to interpret this collection, this paper makes an overall examination of this cherished collection and takes folk pictures as evidences to trace back the tension and balance between national will and folk faith in the historical transition period of China in the early 20^th century.