Kevin Stuart
Biographic Data
| ID | 5138960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Stuart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Stuart |
| SIGNATURE | STUART K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Qinghai Normal University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Benefiting Remote Tibetan Communities with Solar Cooker Technology
In the remote northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai (Tibetan plateau), the Tibetan people struggle to gather yak dung, wood, straw, and other fuels for heating, boiling, and cooking—the basic necessities for survival. Over the past seven years, extreme cold (-35°C) and drought has had a significant effect on the environment, the Tibetan people, and the livestock and crops upon which these people depend. The environment has become increasingly …
Two bodhisattvas from the East’
This paper presents and analyzes the texts and performance context of funeral orations for Monguor living in Minhe Hui and Monguor Autonomous County, Qinghai Province, China. The orations provide an important insight into the Minhe Monguor religious worldview. It is further noted that the longer, more traditional orations are now rarely given and that the Minhe Monguor funeral orations differ considerably from those heard in Huzhu Monguor Autonom…
Minhe Mangghuer Wedding Songs
The musical characteristics of the noninstrumental Minhe Mangghuer wedding songs performed in the homes of the bride and groom in Minhe Hui and Mangghuer (Tu) Autonomous County, Qinghai Province, are examined. In terms of musical characteristics, there is no great leap from one note to another. Although there are many lines in some songs, there are only one or two key lines in terms of musical characteristics. Other lines are similar with limited…
Laughing on the Beacon Tower
The AA. present the songs sung in the context of a series of singing and dancing performances done in March 1996 during the Chinese lunar New Year period in Xi Langqi Village, Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province. The context, Chinese characters, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription, and an English translation are given for the songs. The music for the songs is also presented and discussed. This study is also noteworthy in that it p…
Tibetan Tricksters
A Ritual Winter Exorcism in Gnyan Thog Village, Qinghai
The possible origins of Monguor (Tu) people in Tongren County, Rma Iho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, are discussed in the context of a ritual winter exorcism in Gnyan thog Village, Qinghai Province. Bang rituals and the possible origins of wutu, an exorcist winter ritual, are described, as well as the ritual as it occurs in Gnyan thog Village, Tongren County. For comparative purposes, a similar ritual is described in the nearby area of Rdo sbis,…
The Xunhua Salar Wedding
The Salar, one of China's fifty-six officially acknowledged nationalities, are a Turkic-speaking Islamic people living primarily in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County in the agricultural area of eastern Qinghai Province. The AA. reviews previous Salar wedding studies and describes a wedding in Daxineh Aghel that includes songs and lengthy wedding speeches in the original Salar with English translation
"Stone Camels and Clear Springs" The Salar's Samarkand Origins
The Salar are a Turkic-speaking Islamic people who live primarily in Xunhua County in eastern Qinghai. Their origins are uncertain, but the Salar themselves maintain that during the thirteenth century their ancestors left Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan and eventually settled in their present location. This accords with current historical hypotheses, and is suggested in the doye oyna, a type of play that contains elements relating to the Sala…
Why Snails Have Shells
The twenty stories that comprise this collection reflect some of the ethnic diversity of China. Through a cast of familiar animals, we get a glimpse of the cultures from which the stories emanate. Besides their literary value, these tales convey moral instruction. Each tale is enhanced with an illustration by Li Ji
The Teller of Seventy Lies & Other Mongolian Folktales
Mountain Gods and Trance Mediums
Pendant plusieurs jours, chaque ete, le village de Zhangjia de la prefecture autonome tibetaine de Huangnan (Malhu) dans la province Qinghai celebre le festival de Laru. Tous ceux qui ont des liens de parente etroits avec le village y retournent pour etre reunis. Tout le monde revet les habits de style tibetain et est fier d'etre Tibetain. Un medium en transe exorcise le village du mal en visitant chaque foyer. Les dieux du village sont veneres e…
Larinbuda and Jiminsu
Delighting the Gods in 1990
We focus here on a Han village-level shehuo in Qinghai, a series of dancing and singing performances held only during Spring Festival (the fifteen days at the beginning of the Chinese lunar year). Particularly, we examine shehuo among Han Chinese in the region embracing the presentday Minhe Hui and Tu (Monguor) Autonomous County,' located in the agricultural eastern area of Qinghai in China's remote northwest. This general area is well described …
Folklore concerning Tsong-kha-pa
The article is a selective translation of tales centering around Tson-kha-pa (1357-1419), the great Tibetan Buddhist reformer, and Taer Temple, the monastery near Xining, Qinghai, located on the spot where Tsong-kha-pa is believed to have been born and where his remains are kept and venerated. The tales, from the regions surrounding Taer Temple, relate the circumstances of Tsong-kha-pa's birth, his youth and development, and some of the miracles …
Death and Funerals among the Minhe Tu (Monguor)
Death and proper funeral ceremonies are a serious business for Minhe Tu, because, improperly treated, a deceased will be certain to cause trouble. Lamas have to be buried differently from non-lamas ; those who die from natural deaths, differently from those who die from unnatural deaths - which, in the Minhe Tu framework, includes the deaths of children, pregnant women, and young unmarried people. Despite the Cultural Revolution and present-day l…
Mongol Creation Stories
撒拉族風俗 [Records of Salar Customs]
The Xunhua Sala
花 通論 [On huaer]
"Stone Camels and Clear Springs" The Salar's Samarkand Origins
The Salar are a Turkic-speaking Islamic people who live primarily in Xunhua County in eastern Qinghai. Their origins are uncertain, but the Salar themselves maintain that during the thirteenth century their ancestors left Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan and eventually settled in their present location. This accords with current historical hypotheses, and is suggested in the doye oyna, a type of play that contains elements relating to the Sala…
Mongol Creation Stories
The Xunhua Salar Wedding
The Salar, one of China's fifty-six officially acknowledged nationalities, are a Turkic-speaking Islamic people living primarily in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County in the agricultural area of eastern Qinghai Province. The AA. reviews previous Salar wedding studies and describes a wedding in Daxineh Aghel that includes songs and lengthy wedding speeches in the original Salar with English translation
Death and Funerals among the Minhe Tu (Monguor)
Death and proper funeral ceremonies are a serious business for Minhe Tu, because, improperly treated, a deceased will be certain to cause trouble. Lamas have to be buried differently from non-lamas ; those who die from natural deaths, differently from those who die from unnatural deaths - which, in the Minhe Tu framework, includes the deaths of children, pregnant women, and young unmarried people. Despite the Cultural Revolution and present-day l…
Mountain Gods and Trance Mediums
Pendant plusieurs jours, chaque ete, le village de Zhangjia de la prefecture autonome tibetaine de Huangnan (Malhu) dans la province Qinghai celebre le festival de Laru. Tous ceux qui ont des liens de parente etroits avec le village y retournent pour etre reunis. Tout le monde revet les habits de style tibetain et est fier d'etre Tibetain. Un medium en transe exorcise le village du mal en visitant chaque foyer. Les dieux du village sont veneres e…
The Xunhua Sala
Two bodhisattvas from the East’
This paper presents and analyzes the texts and performance context of funeral orations for Monguor living in Minhe Hui and Monguor Autonomous County, Qinghai Province, China. The orations provide an important insight into the Minhe Monguor religious worldview. It is further noted that the longer, more traditional orations are now rarely given and that the Minhe Monguor funeral orations differ considerably from those heard in Huzhu Monguor Autonom…
Minhe Mangghuer Wedding Songs
The musical characteristics of the noninstrumental Minhe Mangghuer wedding songs performed in the homes of the bride and groom in Minhe Hui and Mangghuer (Tu) Autonomous County, Qinghai Province, are examined. In terms of musical characteristics, there is no great leap from one note to another. Although there are many lines in some songs, there are only one or two key lines in terms of musical characteristics. Other lines are similar with limited…
Tibetan Tricksters
A Ritual Winter Exorcism in Gnyan Thog Village, Qinghai
The possible origins of Monguor (Tu) people in Tongren County, Rma Iho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, are discussed in the context of a ritual winter exorcism in Gnyan thog Village, Qinghai Province. Bang rituals and the possible origins of wutu, an exorcist winter ritual, are described, as well as the ritual as it occurs in Gnyan thog Village, Tongren County. For comparative purposes, a similar ritual is described in the nearby area of Rdo sbis,…
Folklore concerning Tsong-kha-pa
The article is a selective translation of tales centering around Tson-kha-pa (1357-1419), the great Tibetan Buddhist reformer, and Taer Temple, the monastery near Xining, Qinghai, located on the spot where Tsong-kha-pa is believed to have been born and where his remains are kept and venerated. The tales, from the regions surrounding Taer Temple, relate the circumstances of Tsong-kha-pa's birth, his youth and development, and some of the miracles …
The Xunhua Sala
花 通論 [On huaer]
撒拉族風俗 [Records of Salar Customs]
Folklore concerning Tsong-kha-pa
The article is a selective translation of tales centering around Tson-kha-pa (1357-1419), the great Tibetan Buddhist reformer, and Taer Temple, the monastery near Xining, Qinghai, located on the spot where Tsong-kha-pa is believed to have been born and where his remains are kept and venerated. The tales, from the regions surrounding Taer Temple, relate the circumstances of Tsong-kha-pa's birth, his youth and development, and some of the miracles …
Death and Funerals among the Minhe Tu (Monguor)
Death and proper funeral ceremonies are a serious business for Minhe Tu, because, improperly treated, a deceased will be certain to cause trouble. Lamas have to be buried differently from non-lamas ; those who die from natural deaths, differently from those who die from unnatural deaths - which, in the Minhe Tu framework, includes the deaths of children, pregnant women, and young unmarried people. Despite the Cultural Revolution and present-day l…
Mongol Creation Stories
Delighting the Gods in 1990
We focus here on a Han village-level shehuo in Qinghai, a series of dancing and singing performances held only during Spring Festival (the fifteen days at the beginning of the Chinese lunar year). Particularly, we examine shehuo among Han Chinese in the region embracing the presentday Minhe Hui and Tu (Monguor) Autonomous County,' located in the agricultural eastern area of Qinghai in China's remote northwest. This general area is well described …
Why Snails Have Shells
The twenty stories that comprise this collection reflect some of the ethnic diversity of China. Through a cast of familiar animals, we get a glimpse of the cultures from which the stories emanate. Besides their literary value, these tales convey moral instruction. Each tale is enhanced with an illustration by Li Ji
The Teller of Seventy Lies & Other Mongolian Folktales
Mountain Gods and Trance Mediums
Pendant plusieurs jours, chaque ete, le village de Zhangjia de la prefecture autonome tibetaine de Huangnan (Malhu) dans la province Qinghai celebre le festival de Laru. Tous ceux qui ont des liens de parente etroits avec le village y retournent pour etre reunis. Tout le monde revet les habits de style tibetain et est fier d'etre Tibetain. Un medium en transe exorcise le village du mal en visitant chaque foyer. Les dieux du village sont veneres e…
Larinbuda and Jiminsu
"Stone Camels and Clear Springs" The Salar's Samarkand Origins
The Salar are a Turkic-speaking Islamic people who live primarily in Xunhua County in eastern Qinghai. Their origins are uncertain, but the Salar themselves maintain that during the thirteenth century their ancestors left Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan and eventually settled in their present location. This accords with current historical hypotheses, and is suggested in the doye oyna, a type of play that contains elements relating to the Sala…
Two bodhisattvas from the East’
This paper presents and analyzes the texts and performance context of funeral orations for Monguor living in Minhe Hui and Monguor Autonomous County, Qinghai Province, China. The orations provide an important insight into the Minhe Monguor religious worldview. It is further noted that the longer, more traditional orations are now rarely given and that the Minhe Monguor funeral orations differ considerably from those heard in Huzhu Monguor Autonom…
Minhe Mangghuer Wedding Songs
The musical characteristics of the noninstrumental Minhe Mangghuer wedding songs performed in the homes of the bride and groom in Minhe Hui and Mangghuer (Tu) Autonomous County, Qinghai Province, are examined. In terms of musical characteristics, there is no great leap from one note to another. Although there are many lines in some songs, there are only one or two key lines in terms of musical characteristics. Other lines are similar with limited…
Laughing on the Beacon Tower
The AA. present the songs sung in the context of a series of singing and dancing performances done in March 1996 during the Chinese lunar New Year period in Xi Langqi Village, Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province. The context, Chinese characters, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription, and an English translation are given for the songs. The music for the songs is also presented and discussed. This study is also noteworthy in that it p…
Tibetan Tricksters
A Ritual Winter Exorcism in Gnyan Thog Village, Qinghai
The possible origins of Monguor (Tu) people in Tongren County, Rma Iho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, are discussed in the context of a ritual winter exorcism in Gnyan thog Village, Qinghai Province. Bang rituals and the possible origins of wutu, an exorcist winter ritual, are described, as well as the ritual as it occurs in Gnyan thog Village, Tongren County. For comparative purposes, a similar ritual is described in the nearby area of Rdo sbis,…
The Xunhua Salar Wedding
The Salar, one of China's fifty-six officially acknowledged nationalities, are a Turkic-speaking Islamic people living primarily in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County in the agricultural area of eastern Qinghai Province. The AA. reviews previous Salar wedding studies and describes a wedding in Daxineh Aghel that includes songs and lengthy wedding speeches in the original Salar with English translation
Benefiting Remote Tibetan Communities with Solar Cooker Technology
In the remote northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai (Tibetan plateau), the Tibetan people struggle to gather yak dung, wood, straw, and other fuels for heating, boiling, and cooking—the basic necessities for survival. Over the past seven years, extreme cold (-35°C) and drought has had a significant effect on the environment, the Tibetan people, and the livestock and crops upon which these people depend. The environment has become increasingly …
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