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Religion in Chinese Society
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Social Control in Traditional China
TL;DR: By comparing the relative manifestation of formal government control and informal social control, the authors can draw several hypotheses and insights from traditional Chinese society which can facilitate social control research in modern China and similar societies.
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Christianity and Judaism
TL;DR: A population map of the Jews in Christian lands in the year 1500 would reveal a striking fact as discussed by the authors, namely, that in vast areas of Christendom there were no Jews.
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Pu Songling and the Qing Examination System
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors of the collection of strange tales by Pu Songling (1640-1715) provide an answer to a question that is central to our understanding of their examination life: why did he fail?
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The Calvinist Reformation in Geneva
TL;DR: The Reformation in Geneva began as a political revolution, quickly followed by a religious revolution, both directed against the power of a prince-bishop as discussed by the authors, who had ruled this diocese in close collaboration with the duchy of Savoy.
Moralising Ancestors as Socio-moral Capital: A Study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how ancestors continued to be regarded as important members of a transnational lineage in the Fujian Province in South China, and also in Singapore, and how ancestors are moralised as a significant social capital by the Chinese State, local government and rural villagers, in an attempt to establish transnational guanxi linkages between the ancestral villages in rural China and their Diaspora members in Singapore.