- Title Pages
- Figures
- Charts
- Tables
- Foreword
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Introduction Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money -
Chapter 1 Some Occasional Rites Performed by 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 as Adjuncts to Chinese Worship -
Chapter 4 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese -
Chapter 5 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note -
Chapter 6 Chinese Women’s Vegetarian Houses in Singapore -
Chapter 7 Chinese Religion and Religious Institutions in 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 Cohesion in the Nineteenth Century -
Chapter 11 The Role of Savings and Wealth among Hong Kong Chinese -
Chapter 12 Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong’s New Territories -
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 -
Chapter 17 Chinese Traditional Ideas and the Treatment of Disease: Two Examples from Hong Kong -
Chapter 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
- Index
Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung
Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung
(1978)*
- Chapter:
- (p.422) (p.423) Chapter 16 Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung
- Source:
- Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore
- Author(s):
Marjorie Topley
, Jean DeBernardi- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
Women all over Kwangtung traditionally worked outside their home, and by this century women in other provinces were also working in cash-earning occupations. However, marriage resistance remained unique to one small area. In the last twenty years, however, a few social scientists have interviewed women from the resistance area who had emigrated to Hong Kong and Singapore. The interviews conducted by Ho It Chong, a former social work student at the University of Singapore, are of particular value. This chapter describes the physical environment and its effect on the local economy and culture. It then tries to isolate local factors that helped generate the resistance, encouraged the particular forms it took, and perpetuated its existence. Finally, it looks at changes in the area and elsewhere that may have contributed to the movement's decline.
Keywords: Kwangtung, marriage resistance, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ho It Chong, physical environment, local economy
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Charts
- Tables
- Foreword
-
Introduction Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money -
Chapter 1 Some Occasional Rites Performed by 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 as Adjuncts to Chinese Worship -
Chapter 4 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese -
Chapter 5 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note -
Chapter 6 Chinese Women’s Vegetarian Houses in Singapore -
Chapter 7 Chinese Religion and Religious Institutions in 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 Cohesion in the Nineteenth Century -
Chapter 11 The Role of Savings and Wealth among Hong Kong Chinese -
Chapter 12 Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong’s New Territories -
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 -
Chapter 17 Chinese Traditional Ideas and the Treatment of Disease: Two Examples from Hong Kong -
Chapter 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
- Index
