This text is an online supplement to Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives, edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ping Yao, and Cong Ellen Zhang (University of Washington Press, 2019), containing the original biographies in Chinese.

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant “colony” of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the twentieth century. By foregrounding the responses of Chinese and other imperial elites to the growing threat of national determination across Eurasia, Justin...

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Background: An average of 3 out of every 1000 children are born with a hearing loss. Both hearing screening and intervention services have a significant positive impact on these children. The current study focused on screening services. There were two objectives. 1. Systematic Review: To identify and examine the reported factors and outcomes of hospital-based newborn hearing screening (NHS) programs. Factors and outcomes include screening protocol, type of equipment, coverage rates, referral rates, loss to...

Due to the recent discovery of topological insulators in condensed matter physics, a new notion of topology has emerged in association with the intrinsic dispersion behavior of a structure. In this work, we have taken this notion of topology and have shown some novel wave manipulation capabilities in one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) elastic systems. In particular, we have taken four different type of elastic systems. First, a 1D elastic system made of a...

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseparable but anomalous part of Chinese society—Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptions of "self" and "other" and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenaciously maintaining connections with Central and West Asia as well as some cultural differences from their non-Muslim neighbors. Familiar Strangers narrates a...

In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s Inner Mongolian allies. The Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat (Bishu Shanzhuang) was strategically located at the node of mountain “veins” through which the Qing empire’s geomantic energy was said to flow. At this site, from late spring through early autumn, the Kangxi emperor presided...

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The Chinese authorities and the Tibetans in exile present conflicting views on almost every aspect of Tibetan cultural life. Åshild Kolås and Monika Thowsen have gathered an astounding array of data to quantify Tibetan cultural activities—involving Tibetan language, literature, visual arts, museums, performing...

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

In September 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. Both the ocean and the cryosphere — Earth’s frozen regions, including glaciers in Washington’s Cascade Range and Olympic Mountains and seasonal snowfall across the state — are showing signs of the negative impacts of human-caused climate change. This brief summarizes the Special Report and related consequences to Washington state, where the impacts...

Transcribed by Jjivot Zopqu, from an undated scroll into Liangshan Standard Yi Syllabary, which is presented here in Northern Yi romanization, based on oral versions of the stories performed by the communities’ bimo, ritualists, and storytellers.