Inequality Among Brothers: Class and Kinship in South China

by Rubie S. Watson

Book Overview

Using historical documents and evidence gathered in the field, Rubie Watson provides a social history of the 600-year-old Chinese lineage village of Ha Tsuen in the New Territories of Hong Kong, and demonstrates the crucial role that the lineage played in the evolution of the community from a few scattered households in the fourteenth century into a regional power from the 1700s onwards. Despite a patrilineal ideology that extols the virtues of brotherhood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521040582
• ISBN13: 9780521040587
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"