Offerings of various kinds - food, incense, paper money, and figures - have been central to Chinese culture for millennia, and as a public, visual display of spiritual belief, they are still evident today in China and in Chinatowns around the world. Using Hong Kong as a case study, Janet Scott looks at paper offerings from every conceivable angle - how they are made, sold, and ...(展开全部)

Offerings of various kinds - food, incense, paper money, and figures - have been central to Chinese culture for millennia, and as a public, visual display of spiritual belief, they are still evident today in China and in Chinatowns around the world. Using Hong Kong as a case study, Janet Scott looks at paper offerings from every conceivable angle - how they are made, sold, and ...(展开全部)

焦大衛（David K. Jordan） 曾就讀史丹佛與芝加哥大學，1969年芝加哥大學人類學博士。David K. Jordan長期擔任加州大學聖地牙哥校區教授，研究專長為文化與心理人類學、宗教人類學、漢人民間信仰、社會語言學等。Jordan在研究與教學方面興趣廣泛、聲望卓著，他是研究漢人社會的人類學家中較早期的拓荒者，所著的Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors（1972），是英語世界第一本全面而完整的台灣漢人民間信仰民族誌分析m他與 D. Overmyer合著的The Flying Phoenix（1986）［中譯本《飛鸞︰中國民間教派面面觀》，2005］，是另一本研究漢人社會民間結社與扶鸞現象的開創性著作。Jordan民族誌報導中，往往能對漢人社會民眾宗教實踐進行細膩的社會與文化心理分析，並提出結構性的解釋觀點。Jordan多...(展开全部)

Sometime around the year 64, in the main square of the city of Amisus (modern Samsun in northern Turkey) on the Black Sea coast, a group of workmen unveiled a new monument. It consisted of three statues representing select members of the imperial family: the emperor Nero, sporting his trademark neck beard; his beautiful second wife Poppaea, her hair bound up in elaborate coiffu...(展开全部)

Sometime around the year 64, in the main square of the city of Amisus (modern Samsun in northern Turkey) on the Black Sea coast, a group of workmen unveiled a new monument. It consisted of three statues representing select members of the imperial family: the emperor Nero, sporting his trademark neck beard; his beautiful second wife Poppaea, her hair bound up in elaborate coiffu...(展开全部)

焦大衛（David K. Jordan） 曾就讀史丹佛與芝加哥大學，1969年芝加哥大學人類學博士。David K. Jordan長期擔任加州大學聖地牙哥校區教授，研究專長為文化與心理人類學、宗教人類學、漢人民間信仰、社會語言學等。Jordan在研究與教學方面興趣廣泛、聲望卓著，他是研究漢人社會的人類學家中較早期的拓荒者，所著的Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors（1972），是英語世界第一本全面而完整的台灣漢人民間信仰民族誌分析m他與 D. Overmyer合著的The Flying Phoenix（1986）［中譯本《飛鸞︰中國民間教派面面觀》，2005］，是另一本研究漢人社會民間結社與扶鸞現象的開創性著作。Jordan民族誌報導中，往往能對漢人社會民眾宗教實踐進行細膩的社會與文化心理分析，並提出結構性的解釋觀點。Jordan多...(展开全部)

Demon warrior puppets, sword-wielding Taoist priests, spirit mediums lacerating their bodies with spikes and blades—these are among the most dramatic images in Chinese religion. Usually linked to the propitiation of plague gods and the worship of popular military deities, such ritual practices have an obvious but previously unexamined kinship with the traditional Chinese martia...(展开全部)

Demon warrior puppets, sword-wielding Taoist priests, spirit mediums lacerating their bodies with spikes and blades—these are among the most dramatic images in Chinese religion. Usually linked to the propitiation of plague gods and the worship of popular military deities, such ritual practices have an obvious but previously unexamined kinship with the traditional Chinese martia...(展开全部)

雷德侯 1942年12月7日出生于慕尼黑。 1961-1969年在科函授生 、波恩、巴黎、台北、海德堡等地学习东亚艺术、欧洲艺术、汉学、日本学。 1969年以《清代的篆书》论文获海德堡大学东亚艺术史博士，随后至美国普林斯顿大学、哈佛大学修学。 1975-1976年供职于柏林国立博物馆、东亚艺术博物馆，1976年在科隆大学任教授，同年执教于海德堡大学东亚艺术史系，任系主任兼艺术史研究所所长，1978年任哲学历史学院院长。 雷德侯还是德国东方学会会长、柏林学术院院士、德意志考古研究所通讯员、海德堡学术院院士、英国学术院通讯院士。曾任剑桥、芝加哥、台湾大学客座教授或特约研究员。 其主持的展览有紫禁城的珍宝、兵马俑大军，日本与欧洲，中国明清绘画等。著《米蒂与中国书法的古典传统》、《兰与石——柏林东亚艺术博物馆藏中国书画》，《万物》于2002年获列文森图书奖。...(展开全部)