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A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake--the admirable demon who loves her victim--has b
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These popular baojuan offer rare insights on lay religion and family dynamics of the Ming dynasty, and their original th
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How has rapid economic development and the aging of the population affected the expression of filial piety in East Asia?
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Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging pop
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Of the many ballads, tales, and plays extolling filial piety (xiao)--the foundational virtue of imperial China--none was
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Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960-1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These
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Given as the D.D. Kosambi Memorial Lectures at Bombay University in 1999. These two essays explore some facets of the in
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Huang Xiangjian, a mid-seventeenth-century member of the Suzhou local elite, journeyed on foot to southwest China and re
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Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen’s fiction, his work has received relatively little scholarly at
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