I’ve previously written about Zhu Bajie‘s worship in Taiwan as the god of prostitutes and the hospitality industry. Now, a new paper has been published by Prof. Ben Brose (University of Michigan) that takes a more in-depth look at the phenomenon. Abstract Before the publication of the famous Chinese novel The Journey to the West, … Continue reading Archive #8 – The Pig and the Prostitute: The Cult of Zhu Bajie in Modern Taiwan