Table of Contents

ARTICLES
Family and Reproduction in Southeastern China: A Comparison of Cantonese, Hakka, and Yao
G. William Skinner

McFUNERALS: The Transition of Japanese Funerary Services
Hikaru Suzuki

Modernity and Millenialism in China: Qigong and the Birth of Falun Gong
David A. Palmer

Computers, Scientism, and Cyborg Subjectivity in Postsocialist China
Eriberto P. Lozada Jr.

REPORTS
Packaging Tradition: Chinese Death Management in Urban Hong Kong
Chan Yuk Wah

The Plight of an Ethnic Minority: The Munda of Northwest Bangladesh
Hasan A. Shafie and Raasheed Mahmood

Cram Schooling in Hong Kong: The Privatization of Public Education
Anthony Fung

BOOK REVIEWS
Cai Hua, A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China
Chou Wah-Shan

Linda S. Lewis, Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising
Laurel Kendall

Shinji Yamashita and J.S. Eades, eds., Globalisation in Southeast Asia: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives
Michael Jacobsen

Cecilia Milwertz, Beijing Women Organising for Change: A New Wave of the Chinese Women's Movement
Vivienne Wee

Clifford Sather, Seeds of Play, Words of Power: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Shamanic Chants
Tan Chee-Beng

Sergei Blagov, Caodaism: Vietnamese Traditionalism and its Leap Into Modernity.
Graeme Lang

Min Han, Social Change and Continuity in a Village in Northern Anhui, China: A Response to Revolution and Reform
Andrew Kipnis

Joy Hendry, The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display
Gordon Mathews

ACADEMIC NEWS
English-Language Journals in Social/Cultural Anthropology Published in Japan
Ichiro Numazaki

New Journal on Chinese Food Culture
May CHANG