E Ng

Datos Biográficos

ID13073
NOMBREE Ng
NOMBRESE
APELLIDONg
FIRMANG E
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-6122-9640
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAS10
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2009
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Voice hearing as a social barometer

    Open AccessE Ng, Fazhan Chen et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatric…2025Citada por: 3Referencias: 52

    The comparative study of voice hearing is in its early stages. This approach is important due to the observation that the content of voices differs across different settings, which suggests that voice hearing may respond to cultural invitation and, ultimately, to learning. Our interview-based study found that persons diagnosed with schizophrenia in China (Shanghai), compared to those diagnosed with schizophrenia in the United States, Ghana, and I…

  • The Ghost and the Censor

    Open AccessE NgARTICLECritical Times2023

    The history of modern China has been filled with loss in many senses. From certain angles of vision, loss, remembrance, and forgetting orbit around figures of political repression in the People's Republic of China (PRC), particularly that of censorship. These approaches posit a link between the Chinese state, national public amnesia, and international transparency that may occlude other configurations of knowing, speaking, and mourning—those of p…

  • Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths

    Open AccessT M Luhrmann, Kara Weisman et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2021

    Significance The sensory presence of gods and spirits is central to many of the religions that have shaped human history—in fact, many people of faith report having experienced such events. But these experiences are poorly understood by social scientists and rarely studied empirically. We present a multiple-discipline, multiple-methods program of research involving thousands of people from diverse cultures and religions which demonstrates that tw…

  • Affect, blankness, theatrics

    Open AccessE NgARTICLEAsian Cinema2021

    The face and the close-up have been central to film theory since its early days. If modern visual theories of the face arose in Europe amid urbanization and imperial encounter, in the People's Republic of China (PRC), the political aesthetics of faciality became central to Maoist mass mobilizations of the countryside, in part through collective village film screenings. Bringing together themes of faciality, rurality and anxieties of global encoun…

  • Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures

    Open AccessKara Weisman, Cristine H Legare et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Citada por: 2Referencias: 63

  • Ritual futures

    Open AccessE NgARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2021Referencias: 17

    This essay reflects on the still-present difficulty in approaching contemporary rural mediumship as coeval with their urban psychotherapeutic counterparts. Drawing on ethnographic work in rural Henan province in central China, I describe how both rurality and spirit mediumship have been rendered anachronistic through national imaginaries, anti-superstition campaigns, and psychiatric discourses. The essay centers on the case of a spirit medium loc…

  • Spectral Revolution

    E NgARTICLEMade in China Journal2020

    This essay describes the cosmological role of Mao in ritual and spirit mediumship in rural China. It considers the occulted forces hosted by the Chairman’s image and words, across movements of display, concealment, and circulation. Here, the Party-state has a cosmic double, and Maoist anti-religious policies are not what they seem

  • A Time of Lost Gods

    E NgBOOKTime of Lost Gods2020

    "The story of religion in China since the economic reforms of the 1980s is often told through its destruction under Mao and relative flourishing thereafter. A Time of Lost Gods offers a different history of the present. Drifting across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the homes of spirit mediums in a rural county in the Central Plain, the stories here dwell on the sense of hollowing in the absence of Mao. Among those who engage in spirit mediums…

  • The mind and the Devil

    Open AccessE NgARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2020Citada por: 5Referencias: 43

    This essay explores otherworldly encounters and notions of mind across two charismatic-style churches in China. In Zhao Village Church in rural Henan province, Christian congregants more often approached the mind as porous to the Devil's corruption. In Living Church in Shanghai, congregants were more influenced by bounded, psychological notions of the mind as an entity; although the mind was also held to be permeable to spiritual personae, its in…

  • China's Little Emperors Show Signs of Success

    Open AccessXudong Zhao, Xiquan Ma et al.ARTICLEScience2013

  • Heartache of the State, Enemy of the Self

    Open AccessE NgARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry2009

    Past works in anthropology and psychology have described the Chinese orientation toward life as situation-centered with an external locus of control. This model has also been applied to the understanding of affect disorders in China--depressive patients have been found to focus on outside circumstances surrounding dysphoric moods. However, dramatic economic, sociopolitical and cultural changes in post-Mao China may be affecting these cognitive or…