Unstructuring Chinese Society

The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong

By: Allen Chun

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Hardcover | 10 January 2000 | Edition Number 1

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368 Pages

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Unstructuring Chinese Society is a culmination of long term field work and archival research that challenges existing theories of social organisation and cultural change. The book makes new sense of historical contradictions, political conflicts and deep seated social transformations that have underlined the experience of colonial rule and the practices of local institutions in Hong Kong over the past century. By focusing on the ongoing interactions of discourse, practices and global-local relations in cultural terms, Unstructuring Chinese Society puts forth a fresh perspective in the field of historical anthropology, while addressing ongoing critical concerns in postcolonial theory and our understanding of tradition and modernity.

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"Allen Chun has produced an opus that incorporates an impressive grasp of Hong Kong colonial history with ethnographic research in Hong Kong's New Territories. Unstructuring Chinese Society is likely to stimulate considerable discussion." -Alan Smart of University of Calgary, Canada

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