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Article: The changing moral economy of ancestor worship in a Chinese emigrant district
Title | The changing moral economy of ancestor worship in a Chinese emigrant district |
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Issue Date | 1999 |
Publisher | Springer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0165-005X |
Citation | Culture, Medicine And Psychiatry, 1999, v. 23 n. 1, p. 99-132 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper describes the reciprocal influences between Anxi County Fujianese, whose families and clans have migrated to Singapore, and their ancestral villages in Fujian, China. The Singaporeans bring wealth and cultural capital to their poor relations in rural China. Their participation is crucial for local socioeconomic development. Besides bringing material support and globalizing values and lifestyles, they also reinvigorate and transform the local religious tradition. They, in turn, reaffirm and even remake their own ethnic and regional identity. The complex outcome illustrates the fact that China's social change under economic reforms and global influence is, in its huge rural core, not merely a matter of infrastructural, market, and social welfare improvements, but involves exchange and transformation in meanings of rituals and experiences. We can see that kinship and religion are not unchanging aspects of the cultural tradition that are separate from programs of modernity. Indeed, modernity and tradition appear to be inseparable, and they may reveal that the recipe for effective community projects requires a vital tie between cultural, social, and interpersonal processes. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/172330 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.604 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Eng, KK | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-30T06:21:50Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-10-30T06:21:50Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1999 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Culture, Medicine And Psychiatry, 1999, v. 23 n. 1, p. 99-132 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0165-005X | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/172330 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper describes the reciprocal influences between Anxi County Fujianese, whose families and clans have migrated to Singapore, and their ancestral villages in Fujian, China. The Singaporeans bring wealth and cultural capital to their poor relations in rural China. Their participation is crucial for local socioeconomic development. Besides bringing material support and globalizing values and lifestyles, they also reinvigorate and transform the local religious tradition. They, in turn, reaffirm and even remake their own ethnic and regional identity. The complex outcome illustrates the fact that China's social change under economic reforms and global influence is, in its huge rural core, not merely a matter of infrastructural, market, and social welfare improvements, but involves exchange and transformation in meanings of rituals and experiences. We can see that kinship and religion are not unchanging aspects of the cultural tradition that are separate from programs of modernity. Indeed, modernity and tradition appear to be inseparable, and they may reveal that the recipe for effective community projects requires a vital tie between cultural, social, and interpersonal processes. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0165-005X | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Attitude | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | China - Ethnology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Culture | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Emigration And Immigration | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Humans | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Intergenerational Relations | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Self Concept | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Singapore | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Social Perception | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Social Responsibility | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Time Factors | en_US |
dc.title | The changing moral economy of ancestor worship in a Chinese emigrant district | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Eng, KK: kekuah@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Eng, KK=rp00567 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1023/A:1005485826252 | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 10388945 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-0033087126 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 42305 | - |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-0033087126&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 23 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 99 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 132 | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | United States | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Eng, KK=7006858605 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0165-005X | - |