To help navigate through a plethora of recent posts, this is just a selection of some of the more substantial ones:

• A whole series of articles on my stay with the wonderful household Daoist Li Manshan, including another village funeral, rural fashion notes, Elder Hu, In search of temples, and a duo of posts on a village artisan and Uncle Xi;
• memories of trauma—Sachsenhausen, and the GDR;
• Rattle’s Mahler (but not Mahler’s rattle);
• Accordion crimes and Indian singing;
• changing ritual life in Beijing, and a precious 1953 recording;
• more on tensions between popular and CCP views on religion;
• and last but not least, the immortal Philomena Cunk.

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