Preface: Beijing and Its Daily Lives Yongyi YUE
Beijing Normal University,China full Text (pdf)
The Alienation of Spiritual Existence: Temple Festivals and Temple Fairs in Old Beijing Yongyi YUE
Beijing Normal University,China
The wall-confined Old Beijing was a rural city in an agricultural civilization. Its ruralism is reflected by the sacredness of revering earth and also by isomorphic space aesthetics of houses, streets and the city. All kinds of temples, such as Gong, Guan, Miao, An, Ci, Tan, and Si , were distributed in Old Beijing according to their ranks. In addition, the Three Hills and Five Summits (Sanshan Wuding) which enshrined the Lady of Taishan(Bixia Yuanjun) were regarded to be surrounding and protecting the capital city. .... full Text (pdf)
Belief or Leisure: The Evolution of Miaofeng Mountain Temple Festival in the Last Century Yaofeng WANG1, Yongyi YUE2 1 Yunnan Provincial Institute of Ethnic Studies,Kunming,China
2 Beijing Normal University,China
The Miaofeng Mountain temple festival is based on Bixia Yuanjun belief in Beijing-Tianjin area. The paper discusses its historical changes and transformation through methods of text analysis and fieldwork. .... full Text (pdf)
Legend of Nine Dragons and Two Tigers: an Example of City Temples and blocks in Beijing Xi JUBeijing Normal University,China Peking Temple Survey Schedule in Capital Library of China recorded the saying of 'nine dragons, two tigers and one stele', this legend still spread in the old residents in Xizhimen Street. Through the history research and fieldwork, this essay finds out the exact meaning of nine dragons and two tigers and the relationship with the temples, wells in Xizhimen Street. .... full Text (pdf)
Transformation of Living Space in Hutongs through the Process of Urban Dvelopment Qingqing Yang
Minzu University of China
During the process of urbanization, traditional living space, in my case—hutongs in Beijing, are experiencing tremendous changes. The fate of Hutong is almost a thesaurus to devastate the traditional way of living, but to maintain the traditional out look. This article presents findings of ethnographic research in Hutong community, where housed the most authentic indigenous people in Beijing.... full Text (pdf)
Performing Locality and Identity: Rickshaw Driver, Narratives, and Tourism Lijun ZHANG
Guangxi Museum of Nationalities, PRC
The paper examines the fusion of narratives, time, space, and personal identity through ethnographic study of rickshaw driver's performance in the context of 'Hutong tour' as a form of urban tourism in Beijing, a cosmopolitan capital city with a long history and rich traditional (both vernacular and high) culture. ..... full Text (pdf)
Diet, Lifestyle, Ideology: Vegetarians in Modern Beijing Yahong WANG University of Glasgow, UK
The new century saw the development of a new kind of vegetarianism in Beijing. Unlike the conventional vegetarians who chose the diet out of religious belief, the new generation of vegetarians and vegans in Beijing incorporated multiple new motivations including health, environment and animal welfare which were generally imported from the 'West'..... full Text (pdf)
Understanding Mobility: Motivation, Recruitment, and Migration of Chinese Foremen to Zambia Beibei YANGSouthern Methodist University, TX, U.S. A
The recruitment of Chinese foremen and their migration to Africa is becoming increasingly significant phenomenon in current China-Africa transnational context. Albeit previous scholars consider the foremen migration is triggered by state power, my data shows that both the labor demand of the state-owned enterprises (the SOEs below) and the local African labor market without sufficient skilled workers function as the 'pull' factor to stimulate Chinese foremen to work in Africa...... full Text (pdf)
