Author: [Freedman, Maurice] Skinner, G. William; editor:
Title: The Study of Chinese Society: Essays by Maurice Freedman
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1979. orig.cloth, dustwrapper. 23x15cm, xxiv, 491 pp. Minor rubbing. Slight page-edge soil, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction [by G. William Skinner]; The Chinese in Southeast Asia: A Longer View; The Handling of Money: A Note on the Background to the Economic Sophistication of Overseas Chinese; The Growth of a Plural Society in Malaya; An Epicycle of Cathay; or, The Southward Expansion of the Sinologists; Immigrants and Associations: Chinese in Nineteenth- Century Singapore; Chinese Kinship and Marriage in Early Singapore; Colonial Law and Chinese Society; Chinese Family Law in Singapore: The Rout of Custom; Religion and Social Realignment Among the Chinese in Singapore; Chinese Geomancy: Some Observations in Hong Kong; Shifts of Power in the Hong Kong Territories; Emigration from the New Territories; The Chinese Domestic Family: Models; The Family in China, Past and Present;Rites and Duties, or Chinese Marriage; Ritual Aspects of Chinese Kinship and Marriage; Ancestor Worship: Two Facets of the Chinese Case; Geomancy; The Politics of an Old State: A View from the Chinese Lineage; On the Sociological Study of Chinese Religion; Sociology in China; A Chinese Phase in Social Anthropology; What Social Sciences Can Do for Chinese Studies; Why China.

Keywords: Overseas Chinese Immigrants, Southeast Asia, Social Anthropology, Ethnic Minorities, Hong Kong Lineage, Singapore Kinship, Malaysia Marriage, History of Religion, Ritual Family Law