Custom, land and livelihood in rural south China : the traditional land law of Hong Kong's New Territories, 1750-1950 / Patrick H. Hase.
"Land was always at the center of life in Hong Kong's rural New Territories: it sustained livelihoods and lineages and, for some, was a route to power. Villagers managed their land according to customs that were often at odds with formal Chinese law. British rule, 1898-1997, added complications by a...
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| Language: | English |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 513 pages, 16 plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographic references (pages [459]-465) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Introduction: |t The traditional New Territories, land and society -- |t The imperial land law -- |t The customary land law -- |t Registration for the land tax and collection of land tax -- |t Arable land : family holdings, trusts and clan holdings -- |t Restraints on transactions in land -- |t The next heir -- |t The middleman and the role of the community in land transactions -- |t Temporary and reversible alienations : mortgages and leases -- |t Land deeds and the Japanese occupation, 1941-1945 -- |g An overview -- |t Customary land deeds. |
| 520 | |a "Land was always at the center of life in Hong Kong's rural New Territories: it sustained livelihoods and lineages and, for some, was a route to power. Villagers managed their land according to customs that were often at odds with formal Chinese law. British rule, 1898-1997, added complications by assimilating traditional practices into a western legal system. Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China explores land ownership in the New Territories, analysing over a hundred surviving land deeds from the late Ch'ing Dynasty to recent times, which are transcribed in full and translated into English. Together with other sources collected by the author during 30 years of research, these deeds yield information on all aspects of traditional village life - from raising families and making a living to coping with intruders - and evoke a view of the world which, despite decades of urbanisation, still has resonance today"--Unedited summary from book jacket. | ||
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