Crouching tigers hidden dragons: on the myth of the two birth signs

Autor:	Der-Yuan Yang, Chih-Hsing Hung, Yi-Hsi Lee
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	060201 languages & linguistics education.field_of_study History Tiger media_common.quotation_subject Social cost fungi Population Sign (semiotics) Passion 06 humanities and the arts Mythology 0602 languages and literature Ethnology sense organs education Demography media_common
Zdroj:	Asian Population Studies. 12:220-227
ISSN:	1744-1749 1744-1730
DOI:	10.1080/17441730.2016.1173858
Popis:	Sensational reports on the number of newborn in the years of tiger and dragon have aroused great concerns among certain governments. Substantial social cost will be incurred if any age group diminishes or multiplies out of proportion. This article clarifies the facts concealed underneath those breathtaking anecdotes. The statistics of Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, where people have strong passion for the birth sign dragon and distaste for tiger, shows that there are neither shrinking tiger nor bulging dragon cohorts for the newborn or the whole population.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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