Superstition in china

    • Xiuzhen Religion, and the Novels of Magic Superstition in …

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      China’s postsocialist condition by reinventing premodern Chinese religion and culture, especially that ... superstition, and further discuss the various iterations of the cultivator in these novels under the postsocialist and postsecular conditions. 2. Wuxia, the Early History of Chinese Fantasy in the Twentieth …

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    • [PDF File] Xiuzhen (Immortality Cultivation) Fantasy: Science, Religion, and …

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      around China’s postsocialist condition by reinventing premodern Chinese religion and culture, especially that which has been negatively labelled “superstitious” since the twentieth century. The

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    • [PDF File] Xiuzhen Religion, and the Novels of Magic Superstition in ... - MDPI

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      magic/superstition 1. Introduction At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Western fantasy novels such as J. R. R. Tolkien’s (1892–1973) The Lord of the Rings series (1954–55) and J. K. Rowling’s (1965–) Harry Potter series (1997–2007) were translated into Chinese in mainland China.1 Chinese fans wasted no time in

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    • [PDF File] Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School …

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      Keywords: education, superstition, zodiac, investment, self-esteem, test score, dragon, China Corresponding author: Naci Mocan Louisiana State University Department of Economics 3039 Business Education Complex Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA E-mail: mocan@lsu.edu * This is the revised version of NBER …

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    • [PDF File] CAN SUPERSTITION CREATE A SELF-FULFILLING …

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      Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children of China Naci H Mocan and Han Yu NBER Working Paper No. 23709 August 2017 JEL No. D91,I21,Z1 ABSTRACT In Chinese culture those who are born in the year of the Dragon under the zodiac calendar are

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    • [PDF File] Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School …

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      Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children in China Naci Mocan Louisiana State University, National Bureau of Economic Research, and Institute for Labor Economics Han Yu Dalton State College In China, those who have a dragon zodiac sign are believed to be destined for …

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    • Superstition, conspicuous spending, and housing market: …

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      mation results con rm this prediction, and support that superstition can help to explain the observed price di erentials. To test the role of conspicuous motive in lucky address premium, we use home charac-teristics that are correlated with conspicuous spending but uncorrelated with superstition. Speci cally, apartments of larger …

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    • East Asian Studies, McGill University, Montré

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      Gender and Superstition in Modern Chinese Literature Gal Gvili East Asian Studies, McGill University, Montréal, H3A 1W9, Canada; gal.gvili@mcgill.ca Received: 24 July 2019; Accepted: 30 September 2019; Published: 21 October 2019 Abstract: This article o ers a new perspective on the study of the discourse on …

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    • [PDF File] Superstition and Audit Quality: Evidence from China

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      1 In China, an audit engagement team consists of junior staff members and two signing auditors whose signatures are disclosed in the audit reports. The top signature is from the review partner, while the bottom signature is from the engagement partner (He et al., 2018). The review partner, who reviews the …

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    • [PDF File] AFTERLIVES OF CHINESE COMMUNISM 269 44 迷信 Superstition

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      Superstition was also a distinctly political problem for GMD and CCP cadres in the 1920s. In the north China countryside, loosely organised, religiously inspired rural militias had arisen in response to the depredations of militarist forces, demonstrating an ability to coalesce into ever larger confederations—as happened in 1926 when an

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    • Superstition and Decision-Making: Contradiction or Complement?

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      enhanced by the rapid economic growth of China since the late 1970s when the economic reforms started. China has gradually emerged as a great economic power.7 Although superstition was se-verely suppressed in China during the first three decades of communist rule, the restrictions have been gradually relaxed …

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    • [PDF File] Superstition and Financial Decision Making

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      little systematic empirical work on superstition in finance, perhaps because the testing of some Western superstitious ideas (e.g., unluckiness of Friday the 13th) imposes a small sample size. In this and other respects, numerological superstition in China’s stock market provides an appealing venue for testing how

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    • [PDF File] Superstition and Financial Decision Making

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      little systematic empirical work on superstition in finance, perhaps because the testing of some Western superstitious ideas (e.g., unluckiness of Friday the 13th) imposes a small sample size. In this and other respects, numerological superstition in China’s stock market provides an appealing venue for testing how

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    • 9 Daoism and Nationalism in Modern and Contemporary China

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      show the profound influence of the concept of superstition.4 Under the Western conception of religion, Daoism was reshaped based on its tenets and its classics. Daoism was considered one of the major world religions in China, comparable to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. In the early twentieth …

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    • 40 MODERN CHINA / JANUARY1987 - JSTOR

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      superstition becomes expressive of a subaltern worldview in its ability to focus local sentiment in ways the state may regard as potentially counterhegemonic. THE DEFINITION OF FEUDAL SUPERSTITION Feudal superstition is in a sense a residual category. The modern state in China regards all religious belief as …

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    • Ancestor Worship in Contemporary China: An Empirical Investigation

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      Empirical results suggest that, first, the most popular ancestor worship practices in contemporary China are venerating the spirits of ancestors or deceased. relatives and visiting the gravesite of ancestors. Ancestor worship. practice participants make up over 70 percent of the adult population. Second, on average, males are more …

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