Guest People : Hakka Identity in China and Abroad / / edited by Nicole Constable

• Autore: Constable Nicole
• Pubblicazione: University of Washington Press, 2014; Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 1996; ©1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 951
• Soggetto topico: Hakka (Chinese people)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Social & cultural anthropology
• Altri autori: ConstableNicole
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Inlcudes bibliographical references (p. 235-267) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Introduction: What Does It Mean to Be Hakka? / Nicole Constable ""; ""1. The Hakka or ""Guest People"" Dialect as a Sociocultural Variable in Southeast China / Myron L. Cohen""; ""2. Hakka Villagers in a Hong Kong City The Original People of Tsuen Wan / Elizabeth Lominska Johnson""; ""3. Poverty, Piety, and the Past Hakka Christian Expressions of Hakka Identity / Nicole Constable""; ""4. Form and Content in Hakka Malaysian Culture / Sharon A. Carstens""; ""5. Still ""Guest People"" The Reproduction of Hakka Identity in Calcutta, India / Ellen Oxfeld"" ; ""6. The Hakka Ethnic Movement in Taiwan, 1986-1991 / Howard J. Martin""""7. The Hakka Paradox in the People's Republic of China Exile, Eminence, and Public Silence / Mary S. Erbaugh""; ""Glossary""; ""References""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China.
• Titolo autorizzato: Guest People
• ISBN: 0-295-80545-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910309744603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies on ethnic groups in China.