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<p>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. The delta is a rich and socially complex area of south China, and the contributors - scholars from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the United States - have long-standing ties to the region.</p> <p>The contributors argue that local society in the Delta was integrated into the Chinese state through a series of changes that involved constant redefinition of lineages, territories, and ethnic identities. The emergence of lineages in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the deployment of deities in local alliances, and the shrewd use of ethnic labels provided terms for a discourse that reified the criteria for membership in Chinese local society. The ideology produced by these developments continued to serve as the norm for the legitimization of power in local society through the Republican period.</p> <p>In reconstructing the 'civilizing process' in the Delta, whereby local inhabitants, both elites and commoners, used symbolic

Author

David Faure and Helen F.SIU

Publisher

Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804724357

Subjects

Sociology, History, Biography