Description
Unstructuring Chinese Society
The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong
Author: Chun Allen
Language: EnglishKeywords
single; lineage; villages; ancestral; hall; colonial; adm; inistration; surname; indirect; Single Lineage Villages; Young Man; Small House Policy; Colonial Administration; Single Surname Villages; Argum Ent; Kin Closeness; Chinese Government; Chinese Kinship; Ancestral Halls; Vice Versa; Local Chinese Society; Tai Po; Crown Rent; Ancestral House; Perpetual Lease; Descent Groups; Chinese Cultural Factor; Indigenous Villagers; Coastal Evacuation; Village Brothers; Social Organization; Social Structure; Land Conversion; Dual Landownership
Publication date: 01-2000
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 02-2002
368 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Unstructuring Chinese Society is a culmination of long term field work and archival research that challenges existing theories of social organisation and cultural change. The book makes new sense of historical contradictions, political conflicts and deep seated social transformations that have underlined the experience of colonial rule and the practices of local institutions in Hong Kong over the past century. By focusing on the ongoing interactions of discourse, practices and global-local relations in cultural terms, 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.