ABSTRACT

It was on the basis of her ethnography of the boat-people in Hong Kong that Barbara Ward developed her interpretations of 'conscious models' in the Chinese context. The boat-people are the indigenes of the region around the present city of Canton, and were the original inhabitants of the area now called Hong Kong. This book is a collection of papers collected together here were all written at different dates. They fall fairly naturally into four groups. A group of essays on the boat-people of Hong Kong and South China, a second group on different socio-economic topics and third, two somewhat tentative papers on socialization.

section Section I|101 pages

Chinese Fishermen: Studies among the Boat-people of Hong Kong

section Section II|67 pages

Socio-economic Papers

chapter 6|15 pages

A Hakka Kongsi in Borneo 1 *

chapter 7|18 pages

Cash or Credit Crops?*

An Examination of Some Implications of Peasant Commercial Production with Special Reference to the Multiplicity of Traders and Middlemen

section Section IV|82 pages

Modernization and the Status of Women