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, Mary F Somers Heidhues, Mary F. Somers Heidhues
• Publisher: Routledge
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.1993
• EAN: 9781563241994
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-199-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 396 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore