TAl CULTURE
Interdisciplinary Tai
Studies Series
Vol. 20
Tai peoples in
1
Guest Editor for Vol. 20:
Zheng Xiaoyun
this volume is
dedicated to the memory of
who was the pioneer
in Tai studies in
3 editorial
articles
5 Somsonge Burusphat
and Zhou Guoyan An
Introduction to the Kam-Tai
(Zhuang-Dong)
peoples IN
33 Fan Honggui ETHNIC RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN
ZHUANG,
DAI, LAO AND SHAN:
From
a Customs Perspective
46 Zheng Xiaoyun A
NEW PROBE INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE
TAI
ETHNIC GROUP AND ESTABLISHMENT
OF
A TAI CULTURAL ZONE
52 Oliver Raendchen TAI ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY:
tau
tae tching or lao-tse (The Right Path)
67 Liu Zhi TAI-THAI:
Formation
through a Cultural Diversity
74 He Shengda
HISTORICAL AND
CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
OF
THE THAI AND THE DAI AND THE
CHALLENGES
THEY ARE FACED WITH:
A
Macro Comparison
82 Gordon Mathews and
Leshan Tan THE
COMMODIFICATION OF DAI IDENTITY
91 Dao Chenghua HOW
CAN THE TAI NATIONALITY OF
CHINA-ASEAN
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION?
97 Zheng Xiaoyun WATER CULTURE AS ETHNIC TRADITION
AND
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE
TAI PEOPLES OF
109 Tiamjit Puangsomjit THE PUYI IN SOUTH CHINA AND IN
119 Lin Chaomin ABOLITION OF THE SYSTEM OF THE TAI
HEREDITARY
HEADMEN IN
136 Pan
Yanqin Long
kiu, MARRIAGE AND ANCESTORS.
An
examination on a rite of passage of the Tai
in
Guangxi
148 He
Shao-ying AN
EXPOSITION ON THE FUNERAL RITE
AND
VIEW OF SOUL OF THE TAI IN JINPING
159 Roger Casas SOME
REFLECTIONS ON THE INFLUENCE
OF
TOURISM AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
ON THERAVADA BUDDHISM
IN
XISHUANGPANNA (Sipsongpanna)
172 Ai Juhong TAI WATER CULTURE AND RESIDENTIAL
SPACE.
A
Case Study at
County
in Xishuangbanna
182 Pan Yanqin FROG WORSHIP
OF THE ZHUANG
188 Grand
Songs of the Kam Ethnic Minority
189 Liang Quanwei The
Loss of Dong Culture
conference report
190 Oliver
Raendchen, Tai studies conference, Kunming 040904
Zhou Ya and
Roger Casas
book presentation
194 Oliver Raendchen Karsten Krüger:
Exotic
Landscapes and and ethnic border zones -
Chinas’s national
minorities in film
198 Oliver Raendchen Jennifer E.T. Took:
A
NATIVE CHIEFTAINCY IN SOUTHWEST CHINA.
Franchising
a Tai chieftaincy under the
tusi
system of late Imperial China
201 Oliver Raendchen Grant Evans, Christopher Hutton,
Kuah
Khun Eng (eds):
Where
China meets Southeast Asia.
Social
and cultural Change in the border Regions
202 Jana Igunma Jane Puranananda (ed.):
The
Secrets of Southeast Asian Textiles.
Myth,
Status and the Supernatural
204 Reinhard Hohler Sai Aung Tun:
History
of the Shan State from its Origins to 1962