Recycling Tradition Culture.pdf

Recycling Tradition: Culture, History, and Political Economy in the Chrysanthemum Festivals of South China Author(s): Helen F. Siu Source: Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct., 1990), pp. 765-794 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: /stable/178960 Accessed: 10/12/2010 11:59 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at /page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at /action/showPublisher?publisherCode=cup. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@. Cambridge University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Comparative Studies in Society and History. Tradition: Recycling Culture,History, and Political Economy in the Festivals Chrysanthemum of South China HELEN F. SIU Yale University In the mid-nineteenth century, a gentleman in Xiaolan having the Mai surname wrote in his memoir: Age eighteen, the forty-seventhyear of Qianlongs reign [17