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Or is their culture so different that the ghost accounts in this book will seem bizarre to anyone else?</p> <p>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, theories of apparitions from the West also apply to the Chinese cases.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><b>Look inside this book!</b> Click on the following link to read pages from <i>Chinese Ghosts</i>. <a href="http://www.blacksmithbooks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Chinese_Ghosts_excerpt.pdf?c=71d55cbdc605">Strange Cases on Exhibit</a></td> <td valign="top" width="180" style="padding: 0px 0px 16px 16px;"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="right" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="right" style="line-height: 100%; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/chinese-ghosts-revisited-a-study-of-paranormal-beliefs-and-experiences/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='180'%20height='278'%20viewBox='0%200%20180%20278'%3E%3C/svg%3E" border="0" width="180" class="user_uploaded_image perfmatters-lazy" style="display: block;" height="278" data-src="//www.blacksmithbooks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/chinese_ghosts_em-1aef3a5eadc9d10268a91142f3f8981c.jpg" /><noscript><img decoding="async" src="//www.blacksmithbooks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/chinese_ghosts_em-1aef3a5eadc9d10268a91142f3f8981c.jpg" border="0" width="180" class="user_uploaded_image" style="display: block;" height="278" /></noscript></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="273" valign="top" align="left"> <img decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='1'%20height='29'%20viewBox='0%200%201%2029'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt style="display: block;" width="1" height="29" class="perfmatters-lazy" data-src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" /><noscript><img decoding="async" src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" width="1" height="29" /></noscript></td> <td width="277" valign="top" align="left"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div style="border: 0px hidden #000000; outline: medium none;" data-type="block" class=""> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top" align="left" height="24"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></font></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The Tiger Hunters of Tai O<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></font></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></font></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></font></span></p> <p><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></font></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></font></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></font></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top" align="left" height="10"> <img decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='534'%20height='2'%20viewBox='0%200%20534%202'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt style="display: block;" width="534" height="2" class="perfmatters-lazy" data-src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/divider.gif" /><noscript><img decoding="async" src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/divider.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" width="534" height="2" /></noscript></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" valign="top" align="left"> <div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px;" width="354"> <a href="http://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/the-tiger-hunters-of-tai-o/">The Tiger Hunters of Tai O</a><br /> <i>by John Saeki</i></p> <p>Hong Kong, 1954. The British colony was not yet ready to hear about a Eurasian policeman having an affair with the police commissioner’s daughter. Simon Lee tasted swift punishment. He was banished to the outer fringes of the territory, to the far tip of a wild and distant island a stone’s throw from mainland Chinese waters — to Tai O, the ancient and murky trading post where fishermen, salt-farmers and refugees were thrown together with spies, pirates and triads. Pink dolphins swam the waters, eagles fished the sea, and some still believed that a tiger prowled the hills at night.</p> <p>It was a place haunted by history, where corpses had floated in the bay just a decade earlier when Japanese troops occupied the police station, and everybody had a secret about what they did during the war.</p> <p>Life was unpredictable for the band of beer-swilling misfits that staffed Tai O Police Station. Some said they needed reining in. 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font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;" valign="middle" bgcolor="#f5f4df" align="center" height="30"> Warehouse: Unit 26, 19/F, Block B, Wah Lok Industrial Centre, 37-41 Shan Mei Street, Fo Tan, N.T., Hong Kong</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left"> <img decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='1'%20height='2'%20viewBox='0%200%201%202'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt style="display: block;" width="1" height="2" class="perfmatters-lazy" data-src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" /><noscript><img decoding="async" src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" width="1" height="2" /></noscript></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#f6e8c9" align="left"> <img decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='1'%20height='1'%20viewBox='0%200%201%201'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt style="display: block;" width="1" height="1" class="perfmatters-lazy" data-src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" /><noscript><img decoding="async" src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" width="1" height="1" /></noscript></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left"> <img decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='1'%20height='19'%20viewBox='0%200%201%2019'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt style="display: block;" width="1" height="19" class="perfmatters-lazy" data-src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" /><noscript><img decoding="async" src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" width="1" height="19" /></noscript></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"> <img decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='591'%20height='7'%20viewBox='0%200%20591%207'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt style="display: block;" width="591" height="7" class="perfmatters-lazy" data-src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/bottom_img.gif" /><noscript><img decoding="async" src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/bottom_img.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" width="591" height="7" /></noscript></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a3a88c" align="left"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td id="streamsend_footer"> <div id="mailing_address" style="background: #f3f3f3; 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