{"id":10292,"date":"2026-10-27T01:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=10292"},"modified":"2026-10-27T01:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:04:10","slug":"the-lazy-teacher-and-the-taiwanese-robin-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2026\/10\/the-lazy-teacher-and-the-taiwanese-robin-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"The lazy teacher and the Taiwanese Robin Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

While getting ready to teach about religion in Late Imperial China, I thought that someone must have better pictures of the Taiwan City God temple than I do. Lo and behold Josh Ellis<\/a> has a great post with lots of pictures and descriptions.<\/p>\n

This blog post has it all. Father and Mother official, temple as center of a community, Buddhism in Daoist temples, worship of mortals–In this case General Shi Lang (\u65bd\u7405<\/a>), who helped drive the Zheng family out of Taiwan and \u5ed6\u6dfb\u4e01<\/a> an anti-Japanese bandit of the colonial period. Add in some pictures from Longshan (Making offerings, lantern festival in the courtyard, fortune telling, buying charms) and you have a whole lecture. \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While getting ready to teach about religion in Late Imperial China, I thought that someone must have better pictures of the Taiwan City God temple than I do. Lo and behold Josh Ellis has a great post with lots of pictures and descriptions. This blog post has it all. Father and Mother official, temple as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[171,154,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial-taiwan","category-religion","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-2G0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10297,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292\/revisions\/10297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}