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Author_Tong Chee Kiong
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Chinese Ancestor Worship
Chinese Death Rituals
Chinese funerary customs analysis
Clan Hall
Da Bo Gong
Death Pollution
Death Rituals
Dong Zhi
Elaborate Death Rituals
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Family Ancestral Altar
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Ghost Marriage
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Hun Soul
hungry
Hungry Ghosts
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Joss Paper
Joss Sticks
kinship networks
Li Dai
Lighted Joss Stick
Lineage Ancestral Hall
Lucky Number
mortuary practices
mourning
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religious syncretism
ritual symbolism
Ritualized Weeping
socioeconomic values China
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Temple Halls
Wooden Bridge
Product details
- ISBN 9780700706037
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it suggests that there is an underlying logic to the rituals. This in turn leads Kiong to examine the interrelationship between death and the socioeconomic value system of China as a whole.
Tong Chee Kiong teaches in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.
