Chinese American Death Rituals : Respecting The Ancestors, Hardcover by Chung...
Chinese American Death Rituals : Respecting The Ancestors, Hardcover by Chung, Sue Fawn (EDT); Wegars, Priscilla (EDT), ISBN 0759107335, ISBN-13 9780759107335, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK American anthropologists and historians survey Chinese American funerary rituals and ceremonies from the late 19th century to the present, to show the various ways Chinese Americans have resolved tensions between assimilation into the mainstream culture and their strong Chinese heritage. Their topics include Cantonese rites for death and ghost-spirits in an American city, Chinese cemeteries and burial practices in the interior Pacific northwest, remembering ancestors in Hawai'i, and the Chinese mortuary tradition in San Francisco's Chinatown. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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