The study of Chinese society : essays / by Maurice Freedman ; selected and introduced by G. William Skinner.
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Stanford, Calif. :
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1979.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one, The Chinese in Southeast Asia
- The Chinese in Southeast Asia : a longer view
- The handling of money : a note on the background to the economic sophistication of overseas Chinese
- The growth of a plural society in Malaya
- An epicycle of Cathay ; or, The southward expansion of the sinologists
- Part two. Chinese society in Singapore
- Immigrants and associations : Chinese in nineteenth-century Singapore
- Chinese kinship and marriage in early Singapore
- Colonial law and Chinese society
- Chinese family law in Singapore : the rout of custom
- Religion and social realignment among the Chinese in Singapore (with Marjorie Topley)
- Part three. Social change in the new territories of Hong Kong
- Chinese geomancy : some observations in Hong Kong
- Shifts of power in the Hong Kong New Territories
- Emigration from the New Territories
- Part four. Kinship and religion in China
- The Chinese domestic family : models
- The family in China, past and present
- Rites and duties, or Chinese marriage
- Ritual aspects of Chinese kinship and marriage
- Ancestor worship : two facets of the Chinese case
- Geomancy
- The politics of an old state : a view from the Chinese lineage
- On the sociological study of Chinese religion
- Part five. On the study of Chinese society
- Sociology in China : a brief survey
- A Chinese phase in social anthropology
- What social science can do for Chinese studies
- Why China?