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Prosperity SettlementBook 1983 • Gates, Hill
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This dissertation is a study of PAIPAI, or annual community religious festivals, in 'Prosperity Settlement', a pseudonymous portion of a LI on the edge of Taipei City. Gates shows how the PAIPAI and other traditional Taiwanese social forms function i...