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Description for Ancestral Images
Hardcover. Series: Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series. Num Pages: 404 pages, 124. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; AJC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 238 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1040.
A new edition in one volume of Hugh Baker's celebrated three volumes of Ancestral Images originally published in 1979, 1980 and 1981. The 120 articles and photographs explore everyday life, customs and rituals in Hong Kong's rural New Territories. Each mouthful is complete in itself, but together the articles amount to a substantial feast. They investigate religion, food, language, history, festivals, family, strange happenings and clan warfare. The book documents much that can no longer be found. But it also provides an understanding of a world which has not yet entirely disappeared, and which still forms the background for life ... Read more
A new edition in one volume of Hugh Baker's celebrated three volumes of Ancestral Images originally published in 1979, 1980 and 1981. The 120 articles and photographs explore everyday life, customs and rituals in Hong Kong's rural New Territories. Each mouthful is complete in itself, but together the articles amount to a substantial feast. They investigate religion, food, language, history, festivals, family, strange happenings and clan warfare. The book documents much that can no longer be found. But it also provides an understanding of a world which has not yet entirely disappeared, and which still forms the background for life ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
Series
Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789888083091
SKU
V9789888083091
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Ref
99-15
About Hugh Baker
Hugh Baker is Emeritus Professor of Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published books on Chinese kinship, Hong Kong history and culture, the overseas Chinese, and the Cantonese and Mandarin languages. His published articles cover a wide range of Chinese cultural topics including food, symbolism, death, xenophobia, clan, marriage, slang, minorities, fung ... Read more
Reviews for Ancestral Images
Professor Baker makes it possible to recognise what still remains of the architecture, agriculture and traditional dress of this historic area and also to understand something of the unique way of life followed here for a thousand years that is now steadily giving way to urbanisation and uniformity.
From the Foreword by Lady Youde Unique... A wondrous delight to ... Read more
From the Foreword by Lady Youde Unique... A wondrous delight to ... Read more