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Taiwanese architecture and the supernaturalessay 1974 • Wang, Sung-hsing
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
In this essay Wang examines the physical aspects and religious significance of the three major classes of Taiwanese places of worship, the MIAO (temple), SAN-MIEN-PI (shrine), and CHENG-T'ING (ritual center of the house which contains the domestic al...Ancestors proper and peripheralessay 1976 • Wang, Sung-hsing
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This essay compares the status and treatment of patrilineal ancestors to those not in the patriline....