Unstructuring Chinese Society
The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong
1st Edition
Published on 2. August 2004
368 pages
978-1-134-45063-3 (ISBN)
Description
Unstructuring Chinese Society is a culmination of long term field work and archival research that challenges existing theories of social organisation and cultural change. The book makes new sense of historical contradictions, political conflicts and deep seated social transformations that have underlined the experience of colonial rule and the practices of local institutions in Hong Kong over the past century. By focusing on the ongoing interactions of discourse, practices and global-local relations in cultural terms, Unstructuring Chinese Society puts forth a fresh perspective in the field of historical anthropology, while addressing ongoing critical concerns in postcolonial theory and our understanding of tradition and modernity.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
157,06 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-45063-3 (9781134450633)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Allen Chun
Unstructuring Chinese Society
The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong
Book
02/2002
1st Edition
Routledge
€54.00
Shipment within 15-20 days
Allen Chun
Unstructuring Chinese Society
The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong
Book
01/2000
1st Edition
Harwood Academic (Medical, Reference and Social Sc
€252.80
Article exhausted; check different version
Person
Allen Chun is a Research Fellow in the institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. He has held lectureships at the National University of Singapore, the University of California, Berkeley, USA and the Australian National University, and has published widely on nationalism, social theory and cultural identity in East Asia
Content
Introduction: The Field of History in the Field 1. Earthbound Anthropologies in 'Structure' of Chinese Society 2. The Changing Meaning of Colonial Policy on Land in the New Territories of Hong Kong 3. The Changing Meaning of Land in Colonial Hong Kong 4. The Meaning of Tradition in a Progressive Society 5. Culture's Colonialism: The Future of Method
