It seemed he was giving a matter-of-fact description of how religion is practiced under rules set by China’s Communist Party. “My children know who our holy creator is, but I don’t give them ...
This volume explores practices and experiences in Chinese popular religion. The research adds new materials and new approaches to well-known worships such as the cults of doomsday, underworld, and ...
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This book is a unique transdisciplinary study on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science, especially in such a ...
Ching Ming is an occasion for Chinese families to honour their dead by burning paper money and objects useful in the afterlife, offering food and wine, and clearing tombs of dust, weeds and debris.
Each day a knot of government men, Red Cross representatives, and journalists gather at the Hong Kong border of Red China to watch for freed prisoners who straggle across from the tiny Chinese ...
China continues to violate the right to freedom of religion, although the worst forms of persecution -- long-term imprisonment and physical abuse of religious activists -- appear to have eased ...