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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 <i>Hsien-T’ien Tao</i> (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
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- Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
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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 <i>Hsien-T’ien Tao</i> (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
