Ancestor Worship in the Diaspora Chinese and China Universes : The Making of a Collaborative Cultural Basin Hardback
by Khun Eng (Jinan University, China) Kuah
Part of the Routledge Contemporary China Series series
Hardback
Description
Kuah explores the centrality of ancestors and ancestor worship of the Chinese in the Diaspora Chinese and China universes.
Building on the original work and book on “Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China”, this book goes beyond the premise of remaking the ancestral home. Ancestor worship and the ancestors, together with selected cultural practices, constitute an important aspect of the broad Chinese culture shared by these two groups of Chinese and leads to the making of a collaborative cultural basin.
This book takes the audience on an ancestor worship journey to uncover the complexity of ancestors and ancestral souls crossing transnational spaces, their choices of ancestral soul homes, the significance of the lineage ancestral house and the engagement of women through food offering contesting patriarchy.
It also explores the increasing role of the Mainland Chinese state in appropriating ancestor and ancestor worship as a cultural icon and during the Qingming festival as a socio-moral capital and cultural bridge to foster closer ties with the Diaspora Chinese in its attempt to bring them into its “Chinese civilizational polity”.
The book also takes the audience on a photographic journey to visually experience the various rituals and the vibrancy of the ritual performances conducted during the different stage from pre-communal to communal ancestor worship. An essential read for scholars of Chinese society and religion, Chinese migration and diaspora studies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:238 pages, 2 Tables, black and white; 21 Line drawings, black and white; 62 Halftones, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:16/04/2024
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- ISBN:9781032578361
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:238 pages, 2 Tables, black and white; 21 Line drawings, black and white; 62 Halftones, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:16/04/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032578361
