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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

By: David Ownby, Mary F. Somers Heidhues

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Hardcover | 1 December 1992

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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.

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Introduction: Secret Societies Reconsidered
Chinese Hui and the Early Modern Social Order: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Southeast China
Chinese Organizations in West Borneo and Bangka: Kongsi and Hui
The Rise and Fall of the Ngee Heng Kongsi in Singapore
Chinese Culture and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Malaya: The Case of Yap Ah Loy
Messianism and the Heaven and Earth Society: Approaches to Heaven and Earth Society Texts
Migration, Protection, and Racketeering: The Spread of the Tiandihui within China
Brotherhoods, Secret Societies, and the Law in Qing-Dynasty China
Epilogue: Ritual Process Reconsidered
Introduction: Secret Societies Reconsidered
Chinese Hui and the Early Modern Social Order: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Southeast China
Chinese Organizations in West Borneo and Bangka: Kongsi and Hui
The Rise and Fall of the Ngee Heng Kongsi in Singapore
Chinese Culture and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Malaya: The Case of Yap Ah Loy
Messianism and the Heaven and Earth Society: Approaches to Heaven and Earth Society Texts
Migration, Protection, and Racketeering: The Spread of the Tiandihui within China
Brotherhoods, Secret Societies, and the Law in Qing-Dynasty China
Epilogue: Ritual Process Reconsidered
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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

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