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  • Village life in Hong Kong : = politics, gender, and ritual in the New Territories /
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    Title/Author: Village life in Hong Kong :/ James L. Watson and Rubie S. Watson.
    Reminder of title: politics, gender, and ritual in the New Territories /
    Author: Watson, James L.
    other author: Watson, Rubie S.
    Published: Hong Kong :Chinese University Press, : c2004.,
    Description: xx, 490 p. :maps ;24 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: INTRODUCTION: Fieldwork in the Hong Kong New Territories (1969-1997) / James L. Watson and Rubie S. Watson. VILLAGE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: The creation of a Chinese lineage: the Teng of Ha Tsuen, 1669-1751 / Rubie S. Watson -- Agnates and outsiders: adoption in a Chinese lineage / James L. Watson -- Class differences and affinal relations in South China / Rubie S. Watson -- From the common pot: feasting with equals in Chinese society ; Chattel slavery in Chinese peasant society: a comparative analysis ; Hereditary tenancy and corporate landlordism in traditional China: a case study / James L. Watson. GENDER DIFFERENCES AND WOMEN'S LIVES: Wives, concubines and maids: servitude and kinship in the Hong Kong region, 1900-1940 ; The named and the nameless: gender and person in Chinese society ; Chinese bridal laments: the claims of a dutiful daughter / Rubie S. Watson -- Self-defense corps, violence and the bachelor sub-culture in South China: two case studies / James L. Watson. RELIGION, RITUAL AND SYMBOLISM: Standardizing the gods: the promotion of Tian Hou ('Empress of Heaven') along the South China coast, 960-1960 -- Fighting with operas: processionals, politics and the specter of violence in rural Hong Kong -- Remembering the dead: graves and politics in Southeastern China / Rubie S. Watson -- Of flesh and bones: the management of death pollution in Cantonese society ; Funeral specialists in Cantonese society: pollution, performance and social hierarchy ; Waking the dragon: visions of the Chinese imperial state in local myth ; Killing the ancestors: power and piety in the Cantonese ancestor cult ; Living ghosts: long-haired destitutes in colonial Hong Kong / James L. Watson.
    Subject: Villages - China -
    Subject: Hong Kong (China) - Economic conditions. -
    ISBN: 9629961008 (hbk.)
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