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"Secret societies" reconsidered : perspectives on the social history of modern South China and Southeast Asia

Author: David Ownby; Mary F Somers Heidhues
Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1993.
Series: Studies on modern China.
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"Secret societies" reconsidered.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1993
(OCoLC)647053706
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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