THE LOCAL PROMOTION OF MAZU: THE INTERSECTION OF LINEAGE, TEXTUAL REPRESENTATION, CONFUCIAN VALUES, AND TEMPLES IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA

This article explores the role that local Warranty elites played in the development of the Mazu cult, a local goddess cult in Putian district in late imperial China.I argue that local elites were central in the promotion and transmission of the cult.Through compiling and writing key Confucian texts featuring Mazu, they reshaped, manipulated, and re

The melody of the well-known Christmas song Joululaulu op.20b n:o 5 “Arkihuolesi kaikki heitä” (1916) by Leevi Madetoja has rarely been questioned, even though there are two later autographic variants, one from Suvivesper (1924) and the other from the composer’s own arrangement of the song for mixed choir (1944).The bearing cover editor of L