Killing a Buffalo for the Ancestors

This work is a milestone in Zhuang studies. It has a wide potential readership, and is set to make an impact across the fields of anthropology, religious studies, comparative literature, linguistics, and history. It will begin to redress the near total lack of Western-language sources dealing with the Zhuang people. It focues on the ancient practice of buffalo sacrifice, and also provides a wealth of background material on Zhuang cultural history. --Anthony Diller, Australian National University
The author has done a magnificent job of making an important cultural artefact accessible. Historians, East and West, will find in it arguments for the contribution that the non-Han peoples of the southern reaches of China made to Han language and culture. This is an important work, and the research methods brought to it are a model of the highest caliber. --John Hartmann, foreign language and literature professor, Northern Illinois University