Cantonese Society in a Time of Change
Göran Aijmer author Virgil Ho author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The Chinese University Press
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This work is the result of a co-operation between a social anthropologist and a social historian and is focused on the social evolution of Southern China. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork study in the Pearl River Delta, which is the heartland of the Cantonese-speaking world, the book explores how the ordinary people and their society evolved in a period of time characterised by drastic change. The study reports on how history supplies people with a repository for the future and accounts for how their march towards modernity is, at the same time, a reconstruction of a tradition.
ISBN: 9789622018327
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1106g
312 pages