Author: Liu, Tao Tao ; & Faure, David ; editors:
Title: Unity and Diversity : Local Cultures and Identities in China
Description: Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1996. orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, vi,212 pp. PAPERBACK.. ISBN: 9622094023. Minor rubbing. Bookplate. VG. ¶ Contains 11 papers. Includes: Provinces, City Gods and Salt Merchants: Provincial Identity in Ming and Qing Dynasty Hangzhou / Susanna Thornton ; Becoming Cantonese. The Ming Dynasty Transition / David Faure; Literary, Ethnic or Territorial Definitions of Guangdong Culture in the Late Qing and the Early Republic / May-bo Ching; Xinjiang: In Search of an Identity /Laura Newby; The Kings Who Could Fly Without Their Heads: 'Local' Culture in China and the Case of the Hmong / Nicholas Tapp; The Image and Identity of the Shanghainese / Xiong Yuezhi; Creating a Shanghai Identity - Late Qing Courtesan Handbooks and the Formation of the New Citizen / Catherine Yeh; Women, Work and Identity: A Study of two 1930s Novels on the Opera Singer / Mau-sang Ng; Local Identity in Chinese Fiction and Fiction of the Native Soil 'Xiangtu Wenxue' / Tao Tao Liu.; Local Religion and Village Identity / Stephen Feuchtwang; Remade in Hong Kong: Weaving Into the Chinese Cultural Tapestry / Helen F. Siu.

Keywords: 9622094023 Chinese Social Anthropology, China East Asia, Sociology, Ethnology, Ethnography, Ethnic History, , ,