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Author Topley, Marjorie, author.

Title Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore : Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (623 pages)
Series Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series
Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series.
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 of Chinese Religious Associations in Singapore; Chapter 9: The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese 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 and Their 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
Summary 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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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Medicine, Chinese -- China -- Hong Kong
Chinese -- Singapore -- Religion
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Chinese -- Religion
Economic history
Emigration and immigration
Medicine, Chinese
Religion
SUBJECT Hong Kong (China) -- Religion
Hong Kong (China) -- Economic conditions
Guangdong Sheng (China) -- Emigration and immigration
Subject China -- Guangdong Sheng
China -- Hong Kong
Singapore
Form Electronic book
Author DeBernardi, Jean, editor, writer of supplemental textual content
LC no. 2011378864
ISBN 9789888053650
9888053655
9882206662
9789882206663