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The Fisher Folk of Late Imperial and Modern China: An Historical Anthropology of Boat-and-shed Living

Product Description: Although most studies of rural society in China deal with land villages, in fact very substantial numbers of Chinese people lived by the sea, on the rivers and the lakes. In land villages, mostly given to farming, people lived in permanent houses, whereas on the margins of the waterways many people lived in boats and sheds, and developed their own marked features, often being viewed as pariahs by the rest of Chinese society...read more

By David Faure (editor) and XI He (editor)

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9781138924062 | Routledge, December 22, 2015, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Although most studies of rural society in China deal with land villages, in fact very substantial numbers of Chinese people lived by the sea, on the rivers and the lakes.

Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China

By David Faure

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9780804753180 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $52.50

China And Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China

Product Description: This book describes China's encounter with capitalism from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It poses poignant questions in simple language, guides the reader through a complex literature and presents a unique point of view.

By David Faure

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9789622097834 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This book describes China's encounter with capitalism from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century.

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9789622097841 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $16.00

Economy

Product Description: This book demonstrates why Hong Kong was so successful as a commercial, industrial and financial city at differenttimes in its history and how these major changes made an impact on the life of its people. The documents selected for inclusion illustrate vividly problems confronted by entrepreneur and government at every stage in these changes...read more

By David Faure (editor) and Pui-Tak Lee (editor)

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9789622096165 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, July 31, 2004, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This book demonstrates why Hong Kong was so successful as a commercial, industrial and financial city at differenttimes in its history and how these major changes made an impact on the life of its people.

Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception

Product Description: The transformation in Chinese social theory in the twentieth century placed the rural-urban divide at the centre of individual identity. In 1500, such distinctions were insignificant and it was the emergence of political reforms in the early 1920s and 1930s which separated cities and towns as agents of social change and encouraged a perception of rural backwardness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Faure (editor) and Tao Tao Liu (editor)

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9780333945957 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 9, 2002, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: The transformation in Chinese social theory in the twentieth century placed the rural-urban divide at the centre of individual identity.

A Documentary History of Hong Kong: Society

By David Faure (editor)

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9789622093935 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $28.00

Down to Earth: The Territorial Bond in South China

Product Description: Bringing local history to bear on major questions in Chinese social history and anthropology, this volume comprises a series of historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl River Delta from late imperial times through the 1940's...read more

By David Faure and Helen F. Siu (editor)

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9780804724357 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Bringing local history to bear on major questions in Chinese social history and anthropology, this volume comprises a series of historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl River Delta from late imperial times through the 1940's.

Unity and Diversity: Local Cultures and Identities in China

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By David Faure (editor) and Tao Tao Liu (editor)

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9789622094024 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $24.00

The Rural Economy of Pre-Liberation China: Trade Expansion and Peasant Livelihood in Jiangsu and Guangdong, 1870-1937

Product Description: This empirical study of the historical development of China's rural economy from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s looks at the factors of farm tenancy and management, the development of cash crops, the Chinese banking system, the growth of trade, and other issues such as labor, technology, geography, and political development to present a thought-provoking discussion of the "pessimistic" and "optimistic" approaches to the plight of Chinese peasants and farmers...read more

By David Faure

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9780195827071 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This empirical study of the historical development of China's rural economy from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s looks at the factors of farm tenancy and management, the development of cash crops, the Chinese banking system, the growth of trade, and other issues such as labor, technology, geography, and political development to present a thought-provoking discussion of the "pessimistic" and "optimistic" approaches to the plight of Chinese peasants and farmers.

The Structure of Chinese Rural Society: Lineage and Village in the Eastern New Territories, Hong Kong

By David Faure

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Hardcover:

9780195839708 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 7, 1986, cover price $34.00

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