found: Work cat.: Chan, M. Ritual is theatre, theatre is ritual : tang-ki, Chinese spirit medium worship, c2006:cover flap (Tang-ki worship; Minnan ritual-theatre features dramatic acts of self-mortification; tang-ki spirit medium worship; tang-ki worship; there are no sacred texts, nor canons, nor dogmas in tang-ki worship) pp. 11-15 (Tang-ki worship is the oldest extant religion of the Chinese people; significant cultural feature of the Hokkiens; ritual-theatre that stages sensational acts of self-mortification; mediums take on the roles of gods; a practice of the Minnan people of Fujian province in southeastern China; in Southeast Asia, the Minnan call themselves Hokkien ("Fujianese"); practice is less a religion than congeries of folk cults combining animistic lore, spontaneous expression, and borrowed ideas from mainstream religions including Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism; scholars have placed this worship within a construct termed Religious Taoism) glossary (tang-ki (Hokkien), pinyin jitong: "Child diviner")
found: A dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, via WWW, Sept. 13, 2006(tang kee, also tang ki. A Taoist spirit medium; ancient practice of tang-ki or Chinese spirit worship)
found: Review essay: Chinese spirit medium worship in Singapore, via WWW, Nov. 16, 2006(the tang-ki -- a medium possessed by the spirit of a god, who undertakes suffering on behalf of worshippers; tang-ki worship; Tang-kis often become mediums unwillingly; possession is resisted, and the human is overcome by the demands of the gods; Chinese medium worship)
found: Tang ki : spirit mediums and family protection, via WWW, Nov. 16, 2006(Tang Ki is a southern Fujinese term for spirit mediums; people who can speak for the gods when others want to contact them; Tang Ki spirit medium will go into a trance, usually have a seizure and begin to speak for the god)
found: Nickerson, P. A poetics and politics of possession : Taiwanese spirit-medium cults and autonomous popular cultural space, via WWW, Nov. 16, 2006(People go to shrines and temples to consult a variety of deities of the popular Chinese pantheon. The gods and goddesses are represented by their spirit-mediums (jitong, or tang-ki in Taiwanese), who enter possession trances and then answer questions on a variety of topics (both female and male tang-ki are common).)
