- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Maps
-
Part 1 Tracing Meaningful Life-Worlds -
1 Reflections on Historical Anthropology -
2 Cultural Identity and the Politics of Difference in South China -
Part 2 Moving Targets -
3 Images -
4 China’s Century -
Part 3 Structuring and Human Agency -
5 Socialist Peddlers and Princes in a Chinese Market Town -
6 Recycling Rituals -
7 Reconstituting Dowry and Brideprice in South China -
Part 4 Culturing Power -
8 Recycling Tradition -
9 Lineage, Market, Pirate, and Dan -
10 The Grounding of Cosmopolitans -
Part 5 History between the Lines -
11 Where Were the Women? -
12 Social Responsibility and Self-Expression -
Part 6 Place-Making: Locality and Translocality -
13 Subverting Lineage Power -
14 The Cultural Landscape of Luxury Housing in South China -
15 Positioning “Hong Kongers” and “New Immigrants” -
16 Grounding Displacement -
Part 7 Historical Global and the Asian Postmodern -
17 Hong Kong -
18 Women of Influence -
19 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia’s Urban Postmodern - Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Recycling Tradition
Recycling Tradition
Culture, History, and Political Economy in the Chrysanthemum Festivals of South China
- Chapter:
- (p.137) 8 Recycling Tradition
- Source:
- Tracing China
- Author(s):
Helen F. Siu
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
This article is bringing studies of Chinese culture, society, and history closer to the mainstream of contemporary social theory. By analyzing the community-wide festivals in Xiaolan from the late 18th century to the present and by explicating how the nature, meaning, and dynamics of these cultural expressions intertwined with the evolution of the regional political economy, this essay suggests how one may build upon the rich body of historical materials and rethink the analytical tools.
Keywords: Rural-urban divide, China, Hong Kong, Anthropology, Social changes, Political changes, Identity formation, History, Culture, modernity
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Maps
-
Part 1 Tracing Meaningful Life-Worlds -
1 Reflections on Historical Anthropology -
2 Cultural Identity and the Politics of Difference in South China -
Part 2 Moving Targets -
3 Images -
4 China’s Century -
Part 3 Structuring and Human Agency -
5 Socialist Peddlers and Princes in a Chinese Market Town -
6 Recycling Rituals -
7 Reconstituting Dowry and Brideprice in South China -
Part 4 Culturing Power -
8 Recycling Tradition -
9 Lineage, Market, Pirate, and Dan -
10 The Grounding of Cosmopolitans -
Part 5 History between the Lines -
11 Where Were the Women? -
12 Social Responsibility and Self-Expression -
Part 6 Place-Making: Locality and Translocality -
13 Subverting Lineage Power -
14 The Cultural Landscape of Luxury Housing in South China -
15 Positioning “Hong Kongers” and “New Immigrants” -
16 Grounding Displacement -
Part 7 Historical Global and the Asian Postmodern -
17 Hong Kong -
18 Women of Influence -
19 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia’s Urban Postmodern - Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
