Rubie S. Watson

Inequality Among Brothers

Class and Kinship in South China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a social history of the 600-year-old Chinese lineage village of Ha Tsuen in the New Territories of Hong Kong.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780521040587
• ISBN-10: 0521040582
• Artikelnr.: 23034695

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Maps
1. Introduction
2. The development of the Teng lineage: Ha Tsuen's early history
3. Lineage organization and ideology
4. Economic organization: the land and the market
5. Local political organization
6. Class differences in Ha Tsuen: the social and cultural dimension
7. Marriage, affinity and class
8. Economic and political changes: 1945-1978
9. Social and cultural transformations
10. Class and kinship
References
Glossary
Index.