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Hungry Ghosts
- 1973 ----- color ----- 28 min ----- 16mm/vhs
- Portrays the yearly festivities in honor of the "wandering ghosts," as conducted by the Teochiu-speaking minority in Hong Kong. All aspects of the festival are shown including the procession of a patron deity around the community, an opera in honor of the ghosts, a seance in which a medium is possessed by a local god and the distribution of rice to the poor.
- Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, China, Religions: Eastern)
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