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This 4 page paper is a review of the book “Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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of ancestors, religious teachings-all of these help paint a picture of a people. This paper examines the book Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors to see what this book
tells us about Chinese-American culture. Discussion If there had been no Chinese immigrants to the United States, it would be a very different country, and arguably a much poorer one.
Its hard to imagine the history of the railroad without the gangs of Chinese coolies who worked so hard to complete the rights-of-way. Early Chinese immigrants set up general stores
and laundries, and where would we be if we couldnt get our favorite Chinese meals? This vibrant culture is known for its veneration of older people, something that is not
common in the West. That veneration also carries over into the way the Chinese treat their dead, and that is what the editors explore in this book. There is
a general introduction and eight chapters, each dealing with a different time and place, and how the death customs differ among them. The purpose of the book is to survey
"Chinese American funerary rituals from the late nineteenth century until the present to understand the importance of Chinese funerary rites and their transformation through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p.
1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death are both important events (Chung and Wegars, 2005). Recent discoveries show that burial rites took place
as early as the "eighth through second millennium BC" indicating that the Chinese culture had an "early concern for the afterworld" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). The Chinese
view of death and the soul is very different from Western tradition. The Chinese believe that "living people have two souls: the hun ... and the po" (Chung and Wegars,
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