Chinese Culture at Thiong Ting Funeral Home

A Christian Funeral Director's Reflections on the Modern Funeral

Chinese Characters, Chinese Culture and Chinese Mind

Writing forms whether in terms of Chinese characters and Chinese ideographs, phonetic alphabet or numeric systems – are created by and thus reflect culture, mind, and social reality. In turn, these writing forms exert great impact on the culture and mind of their users. This article contends that in addition to the cultural content that the Chinese writing system conveys, the media of Chinese c...

Funeral insurance

Funeral insurance has existed at least since antiquity, and it remains popular in many parts of Africa today. Yet the study of funeral insurance as a distinct form of insurance has hitherto been neglected. This paper presents a model in which funeral insurance combines regular life insurance with a restriction on how the payout is spent. The model predicts that there is an intermediate range of...

Funeral for a friend.

47-54-Ting Hua

As a growth regulator, PDGF-BB plays a crucial role in regulating neuronal survival and cell differentiation during embryonic development and in the adulthood. The multiple roles and mechanisms of PDGF-BB are still not known, especially involved in plasticity after spinal cord injury. However, before we can carry out further investigations a transgenic animal model with PDGF-BB down-regulation ...