In traditional China, a funeral and the accompanying death rituals represented a critical moment for the immediate family of the deceased to show their filial p

In traditional China, a funeral and the accompanying death rituals represented a critical moment for the immediate family of the deceased to show their filial p

Winner of the 2015 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres After a century during which Co

To win the approval of China's native elites, Qing China's new Manchu leaders developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society by observing l

A syncretistic and millenarian religious movement, the Yiguandao (Way of Pervading Unity) was one of the major redemptive societies of Republican China. It deve