David Ownby, Mary F. Somers Heidhues

Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315288031
• Artikelnr.: 49352222

Autorenporträt

David Ownby, Mary F. Somers Heidhues

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Secret Societies Reconsidered
David Ownby; Chapter 2 Chinese Hui and the Early Modern Social Order: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Southeast China
David Ownby; Chapter 3 Chinese Organizations in West Borneo and Bangka: Kongsis and Hui
Mary Somers Heidhues; Chapter 4 The Rise and Fall of the Ngee Heng Kongsi in Singapore
Carl A. Trocki; Chapter 5 Chinese Culture and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Malaya: The Case of Yap Ah Loy
Sharon A. Carstens; Chapter 6 Messianism and the Heaven and Earth Society: Approaches to Heaven and Earth Society Texts
Barend J ter Haar; Chapter 7 Migration
Protection
and Racketeering: The Spread of the Tiandihui within China
Dian Murray; Chapter 8 Brotherhoods
Secret Societies
and the Law in Qing-Dynasty China
Robert J. Antony; Chapter 9 Epilogue: Ritual Process Reconsidered
Jean DeBernardi;