On the Night the Dead Return
Five Accounts of Fatal Revenants ( Sha ) from ‘Nighttime Talks’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8933748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shengyu Wang (0000-0002-2730-6072, Twitter (United States), corresponding author), Paulo Henriques Brito (0000-0001-5833-1732, Twitter (United States)) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 395-417 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.2023.2221054 |
| OpenAlex | W4386457241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Yetan suilu (Jottings of nighttime talks) by Hebang’e is a late eighteenth-century Chinese collection of ‘anomaly accounts’. Among the roughly 140 entries in the collection, ‘Huisha wuze’ (Five items on fatal revenants) deals particularly with the Chinese belief that a dead person would visit his or her former home on a specific day in the form of a fatal revenant (sha). Besides providing an annotated translation of ‘Huisha wuze’, this article also explicates the uniqueness of the sha-revenant and sheds light on the rich cultural history of a hitherto understudied mortuary ritual that has close connections to Chinese vernacular religion
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Beijing · China · Genealogy · Literature · Vernacular · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |