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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Topley, Marjorie. Cantonese society in Hong Kong and Singapore. Singapore : NUS Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2011315103 (OCoLC)681314529 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marjorie Topley; Jean DeBernardi |
ISBN: | 9789888053650 9888053655 |
OCLC Number: | 778340237 |
Description: | 1 online resource (623 pages) |
Contents: | List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction: Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore:; Part I: Chinese Ritual Practice in Singapore; Chapter 1: Some Occasional Rites Performedby the Singapore Cantonese; Chapter 2: Chinese Rites for the Repose of the Soul, with Special Reference to Cantonese Custom; Chapter 3: Paper Charms, and Prayer Sheets asAdjuncts to Chinese Worship; Chapter 4: Ghost Marriages amongthe Singapore Chinese; Chapter 5: Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese:A Further Note; Part II: Religious Associations in Singapore and China. Chapter 6: Chinese Women's Vegetarian Houses in SingaporeChapter 7: Chinese Religion and Religious Institutionsin Singapore; Chapter 8: The Emergence and Social Function ofChinese Religious Associations in Singapore; Chapter 9: The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group ofChinese Secret Religious Sects; Chapter 10: Chinese Religion and Rural Cohesionin the Nineteenth Century; Part III: Economy and Society: Hong Kong and Guangdong; Chapter 11: The Role of Savings and Wealthamong Hong Kong Chinese. Chapter 12Capital, Saving and Credit among IndigenousRice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmersin Hong Kong's New TerritoriesPart IV: Religion and Society: Hong Kong and Guangdong; Chapter 13: Some Basic Conceptions andTheir Traditional Relationship to Society; Chapter 14: Chinese Occasional Rites in Hong Kong; Chapter 15: Notes on Some Vegetarian Halls in Hong Kong Belonging to the Sect of Hsien-T'ien Tao (The Way of Former Heaven); Chapter 16: Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung; Part V: Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong. Chapter 17: Chinese Traditional Ideas and the Treatment of Disease: Two Examples from Hong KongChapter 18: Cosmic Antagonisms: A Mother-Child Syndrome; Chapter 19: Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong: Some Social and Cultural Determinants of Variation, Interaction and Change; Chapter 20: Chinese Traditional Aetiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong; Appendix: Glossary of Chinese Terms; Index. |
Series Title: | Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series. |
Abstract:
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.
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