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Dear Colleagues, 

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers, book reviews, and photo essays for a special issue on transnational health in East Asia to be published in its peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal, Asia Pacific Perspectives.

Hello all,

Greetings,

A friend is writing a book about contemporary Taiwan that has a sociolinguistic component.  She is writing on the expression 灑狗血, or making a scene, and she has heard that it is refers to a practice in Daoist exorcism in which the priest uses dog's blood when all other methods have failed.  She asked me if I had any ideas, and, not being a specialist in either China or Daoism, I thought I would post here.  Does anybody know if this explanation is correct?  Also, if it is, can you point her to a good citation for it?

Thank you very much.

Gina Cogan

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