The Rise of a Refugee God: Hong Kong's Wong Tai Sin

By Graeme Lang and Lars Ragvald

Book Overview

In this case study, Graeme Lang and Lars Ragvald describe how plagues, war, revolutions, and industrialization affected the worship of the Chinese god Wong Tai Sin, and why, after his cult was extinguished within China in the 1960's, Wong Tai Sin became hugely successful in Hong Kong. Originally a healing god, he has now become a generalist, and is consulted by anxious urbanites about love, careers and emigration.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195857550
• ISBN13: 9780195857559
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"