Cantonese Society in a Time of Change

By Göran Aijmer

This work is the result of a co-operation between a social anthropologist and a social historian and is focused on the social evolution of Southern China. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork study in the Pearl River Delta, which is the heartland of the Cantonese-speaking world, the book explores how the ordinary people and their society evolved in a period of time characterized by drastic change. The study reports on how history supplies people with a repository for the future and accounts for how their march towards modernity is, at the same time, a reconstruction of a tradition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9622018327
• ISBN13: 9789622018327
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher