Volume 14 - Issue 1 - 2019
Ancestors and Zhejiang New Year: Fragments of Historical Ethnography and Cultural Semantics
G?ran AIJMER
Gothenburg Research Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
This article explores the cultural semantics of New Year celebrations in three places in the province of Zhejiang, southern China. It demonstrates how the complexities of the notion of ancestry and its several modal expressions are reconciled and the dead temporary reconstructed in rituals concerning the building of social continuity. Split ancestors reappear as complete ancestors to promote human fertility in a coming year. The article ends in a wider discussion and some comparisons....
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Construction of overseas illegal migrants’ identity through folk Fujian opera consumption
Haili MA
University of Leeds, UK
Framed around the theories of Halbwachs, Turner, Bakhtin and Wenger, and contextualized in a case study of Fujian folk opera festival, this paper examines the construction of overseas illegal migrants’ identity through the consumption of folk Fujian opera. It argues that as the illegal migrants exist only as ‘ghosts’ within their host country and lack the opportunity to interact with their adopted community, thriving folk opera offerings from diaspora to home region, act as a key ritual commodity to provide individual diaspora with identity inclusion, and international lineage socio-economic consolidation.. ...
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Russia and China Nexus: Impact on India
Indrani TALUKDAR
Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India
The growing nexus between Russia and China has created interest amongst policy makers, strategists and academicians all over the world. Terms such as ‘marriage of convenience’ and ‘soft alliance’ are being used to describe the current relationship between the two countries. Their relationship has been developing into a ‘comprehensive strategic partnership’ since 2011 with the signing of the landmark ‘friendship agreement’....
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On Hong Kong Public Housing System and Poverty
Xia HONG, Zhiqing XU
School of History, Nanjing University
It is said that the ramification of social housing policy in Hong Kong is a huge success. In this miracle, the hero is British Hong Kong Government who has established the public housing system. However, the government's intervention had its own political and economic purpose, and the improvement of housing situation was by no means an achievement....
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First Communist Regime in Kerala
T. AJAYAN
India
With the cessation of Second World War, the Soviet Russia and the United States of America ranged on two opposite sides. The difference among these two countries was based on ideology. While the Soviet Russia stood for Socialism, the USA clamored for capitalism. This caused the alignment of socialist countries with Soviet Russia and capitalist countries with the United States of America creating a bipolar world. ...
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