: Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore . Alan J. A. Elliott.

Adolescent Attraction to Cults

This article details the reasons behind adolescents' attraction to cults. It is recommended that parents, teachers, and counselors familiarize themselves with the warning signs. Suggestions are offered on how to make adolescents less vulnerable to cult overtures. Adolescence is the transitional period between the dependence of childhood and the assumption of the rights and responsibilities of a...

Incense Use and Cardiovascular Mortality among Chinese in Singapore: The Singapore Chinese Health Study

BACKGROUND Incense burning is common in many parts of the world. Although it is perceived that particulate matter from incense smoke is deleterious to health, there is no epidemiologic evidence linking domestic exposure to cardiovascular mortality. OBJECTIVE We examined the association between exposure to incense burning and cardiovascular mortality in the Singapore Chinese Health Study. ME...

History and Provenance of the “Chinese” Calendar in the Z?j-i ?lkh?n?

This article sheds light upon a “Chinese” calendar described in the Z?j-i ?lkh?n?. In previous studies, some characteristics of the calendar were ascribed to the “Uighurs” However, I will show that it was not originally associated with the Uighur. This “Chinese” calendar was brought to Iran by the Chinese Taoist Fu Mengchi who accompanied his ruler Hülegü. Fu Mengchi informed Nas?r al-D?n T?s? ...

Huntington's chorea. Report of a chinese family in Singapore.

Most of the reports on family groups of Huntington's chorea have come from the United States, Britain, the European Continent, and Australia. Sporadic cases, however, have been described in many countries, and in many races-American Negroes (Drewry, 1895), Africans (Gordon, 1935; Klintworth, 1962), Egyptians (El Garem, 1958), Indians (Chuttani, 1957), and Japanese (Kishimoto, 1957). Familial ca...

2 PLACE REPRESENTATION IN TOURIST GUIDEBOOKS : AN EXAMPLE FROM SINGAPORE Alan