- 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
Women of Influence
Women of Influence
Gendered Charisma
- Chapter:
- (p.401) 18 Women of Influence
- Source:
- Tracing China
- Author(s):
Helen F. Siu
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
This essay focuses on the context that has allowed such engagement to take place in institutional, discursive, and personal terms. Although cramped in a small physical territory, residents in Hong Kong have drawn on the cultural resources, images, and institutions of two vast imperial empires. In the first century of its colonial history, Hong Kong was shaped by the global spread of a merchant culture that was dynamic, open, and unorthodox in practice but conservative in its Confucian pretensions and pursuits. The trading partners of Chinese merchants and their associated multicultural moralities added other layers of cultural resources. Historian Elizabeth Sinn argues that, for almost a hundred years, Hong Kong was a significant node—a space of flow between China, the Americas, and Southeast Asia. It thus provided an effective environment for sojourners and settlers, male and female, to deposit layers of value and institutional practice (Siu and Ku 2008, pp. 13–43).
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
