A Pattern of Life: Essays on Rural Hong Kong by James Hayes

ISBN-13: 9789629375539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 456 str.

Hugh D. R. Baker

Spis treści

• Editor’s Introduction
• Learning All the Time, Sharing All the Time:
• Biography of Dr James Hayes, by Robert Nield
• Overviews
• 1 The Pattern of Life in the New Territories in 1898
• 2 Rural Leadership in the Hong Kong Region: Village Autonomy in a Traditional Setting
• 3 Chinese Customary Law in the New Territories of Hong Kong
• 4 Education and Management in Rural South China in the Late Qing Transitions
• 5 A Chinese Village on Hong Kong Island Fifty Years Ago: Tai Tam Tuk, Village Under the Water
• 6 Old Ways of Life in Kowloon: The Cheung Sha Wan Villages
• 7 The Old Popular Culture of China and Its Contribution to Stability in Tsuen Wan Communities
• 8 Cheung Chau 1850–1898: Information from Commemorative Tablets
• 9 Notes and Impressions of the Cheung Chau Community
• 10 A Mixed Community of Cantonese and Hakka on Lantau Island
• 11 The Settlement and Development of a Multi-Clan Village
• 12 Village Credit at Shek Pik 1879–1895
• 13 San Po Tsai (Little Daughters-in-Law) and Child Betrothals in the New Territories of Hong Kong from the 1890s to the 1960s
• 14 Geomancy and the Village
• 15 Feng Shui and Road Works at Tong Fuk Village, South Lantau, in 1958
• 16 The New Territories Twenty Years Ago: From the Notebooks of a District Officer Bibliography of Works by Dr James Hayes, compiled by Colin Day