Cantonese Society in China and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money

Front Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 2
List of Illustrations......Page 4
Foreword......Page 8
Introduction: Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money - Essays by Marjorie Topley - Jean DeBernardi......Page 10
Part I Chinese Ritual Practice in Singapore......Page 34
1. Some Occasional Rites Performed by the Singapore Cantonese......Page 36
2. Chinese Rites for the Repose of the Soul, with Special Reference to Cantonese Custom......Page 66
3. Paper Charms, and Prayer Sheets as Adjuncts to Chinese Worship......Page 82
4. Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese......Page 106
5. Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note......Page 110
Part II Religious Associations in Singapore and China......Page 114
6. Chinese Women’s Vegetarian Houses in Singapore......Page 116
7. Chinese Religion and Religious Institutions in Singapore......Page 134
8. The Emergence and Social Function of Chinese Religious Associations in Singapore......Page 184
9. The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese Secret Religious Sects......Page 212
10. Chinese Religion and Rural Cohesion in the Nineteenth Century......Page 250
Part III Economy and Society: Hong Kong and Guangdong......Page 282
11. The Role of Savings and Wealth among Hong Kong Chinese......Page 284
12. Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong’s New Territories......Page 340
Part IV Religion and Society: Hong Kong and Guangdong......Page 372
13. Some Basic Conceptions and Their Traditional Relationship to Society......Page 374
14. Chinese Occasional Rites in Hong Kong......Page 390
15. Notes on Some Vegetarian Halls in Hong Kong Belonging to the Sect of (The Way of Former Heaven)......Page 414
16. Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung......Page 432
Part V Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong......Page 456
17. Chinese Traditional Ideas and the Treatment of Disease: Two Examples from Hong Kong......Page 458
18. Cosmic Antagonisms: A Mother-Child Syndrome......Page 480
19. Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong: Some Social and Cultural Determinants of Variation, Interaction and Change......Page 498
20. Chinese Traditional Aetiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong......Page 532
Appendix: Glossary of Chinese Terms......Page 558
Index......Page 582