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)

Despite their compelling presence and often exquisite quality, Chinese ancestor portraits have never been studied as a genre. This richly illustrated book is the first to explore in depth the artistic, historical, and religious significance of these remarkable paintings and to place them with other types of commemorative portraiture.