I made these short videos a few years back, after Robert Antony kindly allowed me to tag along on one of his field trips to the Leizhou peninsula in the far south of Guangdong province. They show two sets of celebrations for Tianhou (the Empress of Heaven). Village processions in the countryside And in the Tianhou TempleContinue reading “Leizhou festivals in town and country”
Author Archives: Thomas DuBois
What’s behind the rapprochement between China and the Vatican?
Originally posted in East Asia Forum 23 February 2017 The authority to appoint bishops has been a key point of contention in the restoration of relations between China and the Vatican. Since formally severing relations in 1951, China has refused torecognise any papal authority over the Chinese Church, particularly in appointing episcopal leadership. For its part, theContinue reading “What’s behind the rapprochement between China and the Vatican?”
abai 阿拜
No, they’re not “Taiwanese tamales”
Yellow Earth
From 15-18 September, the CUHK History and Anthropology AOE and Shaanxi Normal University arranged a field seminar in and around Xi’an. The itinerary was arranged by Micah Muscolino at Oxford, and took us to about 8 villages in Baishui 白水县 and Chengcheng 澄城县 Counties, along with a large scale water reclamation project, and two gorgeousContinue reading “Yellow Earth”
Cinnamon rolls!
The easiest cinnamon rolls you could make.
Lyme disease
Here is a picture of our awesome outing to the springs and oboo in Weinahe. Looks nice doesn’t it? Other than the fact that we finally have some good photos for our album of 90s college rock, do you by chance notice anything about these pictures? Anything that perhaps separates one of us from the others? That’s right, oneContinue reading “Lyme disease”
Hulunbuir
I’m back, baby!
Harbin!
My second summer in the possibly charming city of Harbin.
Food in Hong Kong (aka, no love for Jade Panda Garden)
A lot of people tell me they don’t like Hong Kong. At first, neither did I. The first time I came here in the mid-90s, I had just spent couple of really nice weeks in pre-casino Macao. The comparison was pretty stark: where Macao was nice and quiet, full of piazzas and egg tarts, Hong Kong seemed noisy, pollutedContinue reading “Food in Hong Kong (aka, no love for Jade Panda Garden)”
‘May God Bless Manchukuo’ A Crisis of Catholic Diplomacy in Northeast Asia: Talk at HKU
A talk from the new book. With thanks to the HKU poster guru for the lovely design! thomas-dubois–poster-draftthomas-dubois–poster-draft
Thomas David DuBois 