Wedding Cry ~ Death Dance

This book is a one-stop guide to understanding one of the Chinese minority cultures, addressing a range of topics from matchmaking festivals through crying weddings to apprehensive pregnancies and dancing funerals.

An Insight into Chinese Culture: An Ethnographic Study of Xuan'en, Hubei with Special Emphasis on Tjia Rites of Passage_____When it comes to China Nothing is Unbelievable_____This book is a one stop guide to understanding one of the Chinese minority cultures. Ranging from match making festivals through crying weddings and apprehensive pregnancies to dancing funerals it has much more to offer. Thoughtful inclusion of case studies and taboos are your windows to the real life practices._____"I had to go out with my newborn baby for something important. It started raining hard. My real uncle's home was close by but for the fear of disapproval I dared not go to his home. I was strictly forbidden by my mother to visit anyone's home at least one month postpartum, no matter how inevitable it got. I stayed by the roadside until my husband came, with an umbrella, searching for me." -Tjia Case Study