The Japanese Occupation, Recovery, and Transformation 1941–1970
The Japanese Occupation, Recovery, and Transformation 1941–1970
Kwan Mun Hau Village in Tsuen Wan includes the Yau, Chan, and Fan lineages. Some members also lived in nearby villages. Both reconstructed full genealogies and printed them for their members in the 1960s-70s, bringing them to the present and mentioning their halls, re-sited when Kwan Mun Hau moved in 1964. The Yau also preserved an important document, a will from 1837, dividing the property among the branches. Kwan Mun Hau has two protective shrines, one honouring nine long-term workers who died defending the village. Before the Japanese occupation, marriages were arranged, and sometimes made with small daughters-in-law. Women were expected to work hard for their husbands’ families. Children often did not survive, and families resorted to adoption.
Keywords: lineages, genealogies, shrines, livelihood, women’s work, women’s relationships, songs and laments, marriage arrangements and rites, adoption, funerals
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