Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore write by Marjorie Topley. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume collects the published articles of Dr. Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Her ethnographic research in Singapore and Hong Kong set a high standard for urban anthropology, and helped creating the fields of religious studies, migration studies, gender studies, and medical anthropology, focusing on topics that remain current and important in the disciplines. The essays in this collection showcase Dr. Topley's groundbreaking contributions in several areas of scholarship. These include “Chinese Women’s Vegetarian Houses in Singapore” (1954) and “The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese Secret Religious Sects” (1963), both important research on the study of subcultural groups in a complex urban society; “Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung” (1978), now a classic in Chinese anthropology and women’s studies; her widely known and cited article, “Cosmic Antagonisms: A Mother-Child Syndrome” (1974), which investigates widely shared everyday practices and cosmological explanations that Cantonese mothers invoked when they encountered difficulties in child-rearing; and “Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong's New Territories” (2004 [1964]).
Cantonese Society in a Time of Change
Cantonese Society in a Time of Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cantonese Society in a Time of Change write by Göran Aijmer. This book was released on 2000. Cantonese Society in a Time of Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork study in the Pearl River Delta, which is the heartland of the Cantonese-speaking world, the book explores how the ordinary people and their society evolved in a period of time characterized by drastic change.
The Dimensions that Establish and Sustain Religious Identity
The Dimensions that Establish and Sustain Religious Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dimensions that Establish and Sustain Religious Identity write by Daniel H. Y. Low. This book was released on 2018-05-02. The Dimensions that Establish and Sustain Religious Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Buddhism and Taoism remain vibrant and prominent in Singapore's religious landscape. Yet, little is known of why Chinese Singaporeans chose and remain in these ancient religions. Analyzing over thirty face-to-face interviews with Buddhists and Taoists in Singapore, this book provides a glimpse into their fascinating narratives consisting of encounters and experiences with the presence and power of spiritual realities. A renewed understanding of Buddhism and Taoism will, hopefully, encourage readers of other religious traditions to create space for each other's religious identity. Only then can we continue to live and share a multi-religious environment within the small nation-state.
Singapore Chinese Society in Transition
Singapore Chinese Society in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Singapore Chinese Society in Transition write by Hong Liu. This book was released on 2004. Singapore Chinese Society in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the first comprehensive study of its kind, this book analyzes the dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and consequences of socio-economic and political changes in Singapore Chinese society from 1945 to 1965. By employing a wide range of primary materials that have been rarely used before, the authors have demonstrated the multi-dimensionality and complexity of the Chinese society in postwar Singapore, which was full of vitality and politically active. They argue that the combination of the internal dynamism and the changing socio-political framework shaped the nature and characteristics of the Chinese community and its fundamental role in the making of modern Singapore. This study is essential reading for an understanding of not only the Chinese politics and business networks in postwar Singapore, but also the historical evolution of the newly independent Republic.
Watching Over Hong Kong
Watching Over Hong Kong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Watching Over Hong Kong write by Sheilah E. Hamilton. This book was released on 2008-06-01. Watching Over Hong Kong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this pioneering study, Sheilah Hamilton shows that, from the earliest days of British rule, the colonial administration introduced harsh legislation to control Chinese watchmen who were employed to protect the fledgling colony's property in the absence of an effective public police force. She examines the growth in different Hong Kong Government departments of what would now be regarded as 'hybrid' police and argues that the existence of such posts within the civil service resulted in greater social control of the local Chinese community at minimal extra expense. Amongst the topics of private security explored are: the impact of the few private security personnel engaged by local Chinese organizations such as the Nam Pak Hong, Tung Wah Hospital and Po Leung Kuk; the evolution of the District Watch Force from a force engaged in purely local security duties to an arm of the Hong Kong Government involved in non-security matters such as controversial sanitary inspections; and the unique system of village guards and scouts in the New Territories. A particular focus is the early maritime security problems and the internal security forces of Hong Kong's shipping companies. A final chapter compares the situation in Hong Kong and explores the similarities and differences with Shanghai during the period.
