Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia - Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia

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.

List 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;

About the author

David Ownby, Mary F. Somers Heidhues

Product details

• Authors: David Ownby, Ownby David, Mary F. Somers Heidhues, Somers Heidhues Mary F.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.1993
• EAN: 9781563241987
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-198-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; China, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, HISTORY / Asia / China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Freemasonry & Secret Societies, South East Asia, Freemasonry & secret societies, Secret societies, Social and cultural history, Asian History