"Secret societies" reconsidered : perspectives on the social history of modern South China and Southeast Asia
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Bibliographic Information
"Secret societies" reconsidered : perspectives on the social history of modern South China and Southeast Asia
(Studies on modern China)
M.E. Sharpe, c1993
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 25 libraries
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  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
"An East Gate book"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Secret Societies Reconsidered, David Ownby
- Chapter 2 Chinese Hui and the Early Modern Social Order: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Southeast China, David Ownby
- Chapter 3 Chinese Organizations in West Borneo and Bangka: Kongsis and Hui, Mary Somers Heidhues
- Chapter 4 The Rise and Fall of the Ngee Heng Kongsi in Singapore, Carl A. Trocki
- Chapter 5 Chinese Culture and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Malaya: The Case of Yap Ah Loy, Sharon A. Carstens
- Chapter 6 Messianism and the Heaven and Earth Society: Approaches to Heaven and Earth Society Texts, Barend J ter Haar
- Chapter 7 Migration, Protection, and Racketeering: The Spread of the Tiandihui within China, Dian Murray
- Chapter 8 Brotherhoods, Secret Societies, and the Law in Qing-Dynasty China, Robert J. Antony
- Chapter 9 Epilogue: Ritual Process Reconsidered, Jean DeBernardi
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