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(Originally published in the blog of My China Roots).  [English] China has traditionally regarded itself as the center of all the world’s civilization. As a consequence, it has tended to frown upon citizens that choose to leave the ‘Middle Kingdom’ for foreign, supposedly barbaric countries. Overseas Chinese...

(originally published in http://www.mychinaroots.com/portfolio-items/hungry-ghost-festival-and-the-cross-cultural-nature-of-roots/ [English] Ghosts come in all shapes and sizes, especially Chinese ones. There are water ghosts, headless ghosts, friendly old lady-ghosts, and, as pictured here, hungry ghosts. Like all hungry ghosts, you can recognize him by his needle-thin neck, which hardly allows any food to...