Allen Chun

Unstructuring Chinese Society

The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of Land in the New Territories of Hong Kong

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Produktbeschreibung

Unstructuring Chinese Society puts forth a fresh perspective in the field of historical anthropology, while addressing ongoing critical concerns in postcolonial theory and our understanding of tradition and modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9789057024504
• ISBN-10: 9057024500
• Artikelnr.: 54607693

Autorenporträt

Allen Chun is a Research Fellow in the institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. He has held lectureships at the National University of Singapore, the University of California, Berkeley, USA and the Australian National University, and has published widely on nationalism, social theory and cultural identity in East Asia

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Field of History in the Field 1. Earthbound
Anthropologies in 'Structure' of Chinese Society 2. The Changing Meaning of
Colonial Policy on Land in the New Territories of Hong Kong 3. The Changing
Meaning of Land in Colonial Hong Kong 4. The Meaning of Tradition in a
Progressive Society 5. Culture's Colonialism: The Future of Method