Chinese Ghosts Revisited: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences
Do the Hong Kong Chinese experience ghosts, hauntings, spirit mediumship, ESP and other paranormal phenomena just like British and Americans? Or is their culture so different that the ghost accounts in this book will seem bizarre to anyone else?
This classic presentation of cases is based on 3,600 interviews, questionnaires and observations in Hong Kong in 1980/81, updated by recent materials over 30 years later. Interestingly, in spite of clear influences from ancestor worship and Confucian/Taoist/Buddhist culture, parapsychological theories of apparitions from the West also apply to the Chinese cases.
For this 2017 edition, Charles Emmons has revisited his earlier conclusions and added new material that has come to light in the intervening years. This book remains the only major cross-cultural study comparing Chinese with Western ghost experiences.
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Chinese Ghosts Revisited: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences
Do the Hong Kong Chinese experience ghosts, hauntings, spirit mediumship, ESP and other paranormal phenomena just like British and Americans? Or is their culture so different that the ghost accounts in this book will seem bizarre to anyone else?
This classic presentation of cases is based on 3,600 interviews, questionnaires and observations in Hong Kong in 1980/81, updated by recent materials over 30 years later. Interestingly, in spite of clear influences from ancestor worship and Confucian/Taoist/Buddhist culture, parapsychological theories of apparitions from the West also apply to the Chinese cases.
For this 2017 edition, Charles Emmons has revisited his earlier conclusions and added new material that has come to light in the intervening years. This book remains the only major cross-cultural study comparing Chinese with Western ghost experiences.
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Chinese Ghosts Revisited: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences

Chinese Ghosts Revisited: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences

by Charles Emmons
Chinese Ghosts Revisited: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences

Chinese Ghosts Revisited: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences

by Charles Emmons

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Do the Hong Kong Chinese experience ghosts, hauntings, spirit mediumship, ESP and other paranormal phenomena just like British and Americans? Or is their culture so different that the ghost accounts in this book will seem bizarre to anyone else?
This classic presentation of cases is based on 3,600 interviews, questionnaires and observations in Hong Kong in 1980/81, updated by recent materials over 30 years later. Interestingly, in spite of clear influences from ancestor worship and Confucian/Taoist/Buddhist culture, parapsychological theories of apparitions from the West also apply to the Chinese cases.
For this 2017 edition, Charles Emmons has revisited his earlier conclusions and added new material that has come to light in the intervening years. This book remains the only major cross-cultural study comparing Chinese with Western ghost experiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789881376442
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
Publication date: 12/31/2017
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 5.49(w) x 8.65(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Charles Emmons is a sociologist/anthropologist at Gettysburg College who has studied paranormal phenomena for 35 years. He lives in Gettysburg, PA.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2017 Edition   
Preface to the 1982 Edition   

1    Strange Cases on Exhibit   
2    Problem and Purpose   
3    Ghosts in Traditional Chinese Culture   
4    Who Believes in Ghosts?   
5    Ghost Experiences: Theory and Reports   
6    Ancestor-Worship Cases   
7    Abnormal Features of Perception   
8    Ghost Lore and Popular Culture   
9    Anatomy of a Legend   
10    Hauntings and Poltergeists   
11    Ghosts on People, Ghosts on Ice   
12    Gifted Subjects and Yin-Yang Eyes   
13    New Material about Ghosts   
14    Spirit Possession and Exorcism   
15    Spirit Mediums    
16    ESP (Extrasensory Perception)   
17    Fortune Telling   
18    Conclusion   

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