Chapter 8 Suggested Readings, Weblinks, and Other Media

Readings

Hong Kingston, Maxine. Woman Warrior. London: Picador, 2015. 

Shen Fu, trans. Leonard Pratt and Chiang Su-hui. Six Records of a Floating Life. London: Penguin, 1983.

Tan, Amy. Joy Luck Club. New York: Ballantine, 1990.

Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God’s Wife. London: Harper Perennial, 2008.

Ts’ao Hsueh-ch’in, trans. Chi-chen Wang. Dream of the Red Chamber. London: Penguin, 1958.

Wu Cheng-en. Journey to the West. Translated by Anthony Yu. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life. Translated by Leonard Pratt and Chiang Su-hui. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin 1983.

Documentary Films

China’s Leap of Faith (2008), two-part series, 52 min. each, www.films.com

Confucius, Confucianism, and Confucian Temples (2005), 28 min., www.sinsight-media.com

The Gods Come Home: China’s Traditional Faiths Persevere (2008), 52 min., www.films.com

The Genius That Was China (Nova) 3 parts (YouTube, 2012)

Tu Wei-ming: A Confucian Life in America (1990), Bill Moyers’ World of Ideas Interview, July 15, 1990, www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/archives/ming.html

Popular Films

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, starring Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-fat, and Ziyi Zhang

Karate Kid, starring Jackie Chan

Mulan, starring Ming Na and Eddie Murphy

Weblinks

www.cuhk.edu.hk/rih/confucian/index.htm

www.daoistcenter.org

www.daoistfoundation.org

factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=86&catid=3&subcatid=8

Society for the Study of Chinese Religions

isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k7027&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup43182

www.sacred-destinations.com/china/sacred-sites

www.visitourchina.com/guide/chinese_religion.htm

www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/links270.htm

Arirang Culture, Hansik of the Day—Korean Traditional Memorial Ritual. Jesa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz98vTFuIgU 

LearnTeachKorean, [Korean Culture 100] Easiest Way for Filial Piety EN

www.youtube.com/watch?v=giRgMbnoLkA 

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage short videos: The Twenty four Solar Terms, 2016; Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 2010; Mazu Belief and Customs, 2009

https://ich.unesco.org/en/lists

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