Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Cities and the Hierarchy of Local Systems 1
5. Peasant Insurrection and the Marketing Hierarchy in the Canton Delta, 1911-1912 79
6. School-Temple and City God 103
7. Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors 131
8. Developmental Process in the Chinese Domestic Group 183
9. The Sociology of Irrigation: Two Taiwanese Villages 199
10. Child Training and the Chinese Family 221
11. Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung 247
12. The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women 269
13. Doing Business in Lukang 291
14. Cantonese Shamanism 321
15. Notes and References 347
16. Index 365