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The Neighbours' Heaven32

Preface: Where I Lean
The Main Line
Intro: The Main Line: The Roads the Neighbours Tried, and China's Side
Korea Really Did Have a "Religion of the Heavenly Way"
"Shrines Are Not Religion": How Japan Turned a Tradition into a State Faith, and How It Was Taken Apart
Why the Confucian Association Failed: Two Petitions to Make Confucianism the State Religion
What Is "Heaven" (Tian), Really? Five Things Packed into One Character
Chinese Is Only 1.2% of the World's Websites? What That Number Actually Measures
How Long Can a Religion Live That the Elite Don't Believe and the Masses Do? The Temptation of "Teaching Through the Way of the Divine"
A Vietnamese Religion That Enshrines Confucius, Jesus, Hugo and Sun Yat-sen Together
Nanyang
Intro: Neighbours to the South: How the Chinese in Southeast Asia Live On as an "Us"
Half of the People: The Khmer Rouge and the Chinese of Cambodia
After *Boat People*: The Chinese of Vietnam, and Vietnam's Own Script
What Was Allowed, and What Was Taken: Forty Years of the Chinese of Indonesia
The Most Successful Assimilation: Is It a Kind of *Yigui*? The Chinese of Thailand
The Neighbour Qianlong Did Not Defeat, and the People Who Stayed: The Chinese of Myanmar
Chinese Education: A Community Kept Alive by Its Schools
One Language Family, Each with Its Own Heaven: Thai, Lao, and Zhuang, Dai, Miao
The State Pushed Confucianism Once, Then Withdrew It: Singapore
Becoming the Nation's Elite: Are the Chinese Still Chinese? The Philippines
Registered, But Not Banned: How Colonial Hong Kong Kept Its Temples
Temples, Native-Place Halls, Chambers of Commerce: Three Ways of Recognising Your Own
Their Monuments: The Nanqiao Jigong of Malaysia
Same Script, Different Roads
Intro: Same Script, Different Roads: One Set of Chinese Characters, Six Ways of Walking
Can't Read Our Ancestors' Characters: Korea
A Thousand Years of Script: Vietnam
The Characters Are All There, but Cannot Be Read: Japan
The Characters Weren't Lost; the Fight Is Over How Much: Taiwan
Six Similar Exam Papers: Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia
One Hand of Cards, Six Ways to Play It: Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia
After the Queue Is Cut, What to Wear: Students in Japan, Japan Itself, and a Word, "Revolution"
What Makes the Loser Concede: Korea's Two Years, and East Asia's Ballots
其他
Does Thailand Count as Part of the "Chinese Cultural Sphere"? The Question Is Half Wrong

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