"Secret societies" reconsidered : perspectives on the social history of modern South China and Southeast Asia / David Ownby, Mary Somers Heidhues, editors
- Bib ID:
- 1391927
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1993
- x, 259 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1563241986 (alkaline paper)
- 1563241994 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Series:
- Studies on modern China.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction: Secret Societies Reconsidered / David Ownby
- 2. Chinese Hui and the Early Modern Social Order: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Southeast China / David Ownby
- 3. Chinese Organizations in West Borneo and Bangka: Kongsi and Hui / Mary Somers Heidhues
- 4. The Rise and Fall of the Ngee Heng Kongsi in Singapore / Carl A. Trocki
- 5. Chinese Culture and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Malaya: The Case of Yap Ah Loy / Sharon A. Carstens
- 6. Messianism and the Heaven and Earth Society: Approaches to Heaven and Earth Society Texts / Barend J. ter Haar
- 7. Migration, Protection, and Racketeering: The Spread of the Tiandihui within China / Dian Murray
- 8. Brotherhoods, Secret Societies, and the Law in Qing-Dynasty China / Robert J. Antony
- 9. Epilogue: Ritual Process Reconsidered / Jean DeBernardi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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