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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: "Secret societies" reconsidered. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1993 (OCoLC)647053706 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Ownby; Mary F Somers Heidhues |
| ISBN: | 1563241986 9781563241987 1563241994 9781563241994 |
| OCLC Number: | 28505215 |
| Description: | x, 259 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Secret societies reconsidered ; Chinese Hui and the early modern social order : evidence from eighteenth-century Southeast China / David Ownby -- Chinese organizations in West Borneo and Bangka : Kongsis and Hui / Mary Somers Heidhues -- The rise and fall of the Ngee Heng Kongsi in Singapore / Carl A. Trocki -- Chinese culture and polity in nineteenth-century Malaya : the case of Yap Ah Loy / Sharon A. Carstens -- Messianism and the Heaven and Earth Society : approaches to Heaven and Earth Society texts / Barend J. ter Haar. Migration, protection, and racketeering : the spread of the Tiandihui within China / Dian Murray -- Brotherhoods, secret societies, and the law in Qing-Dynasty China / Robert J. Antony -- Epilogue : ritual process reconsidered / Jean DeBernardi. |
| Series Title: | Studies on modern China. |
| Responsibility: | David Ownby, Mary Somers Heidhues, editors. |
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