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This book, first published in 1980, is a study of how refugee
immigrants from China make a living as market gardeners in a valley
in Hong Kong. Based on extensive field-work, it examines various
aspects of economic life; the discussion concerns the adaptations
necessitated on the part of the gardeners by the new socio-economic
structures which present themselves. The general problem of
agricultural change is discussed and the Hong Kong observations are
systematized into a comparative Chinese framework.
Originally published in 1984, Leadership on the China Coast brings
together four independent empirical studies of leadership exercised
on China's southern coastland. Written by academics from across
several disciplines, the book presents a wealth of research on
methods of constructing authority in China, and on informal
politics as a process integrated with formal bureaucratic
administrations in which idiosyncratic leadership operates on all
levels under shared ideological and legal constraints. Leadership
on the China Coast will appeal to those with an interest in the
social and political history of China.
This book, first published in 1980, is a study of how refugee
immigrants from China make a living as market gardeners in a valley
in Hong Kong. Based on extensive field-work, it examines various
aspects of economic life; the discussion concerns the adaptations
necessitated on the part of the gardeners by the new socio-economic
structures which present themselves. The general problem of
agricultural change is discussed and the Hong Kong observations are
systematized into a comparative Chinese framework.
There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives.
In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human
existence, and is very probably a constituting element of human
society. And yet violent action - warfare, penalties, insults,
feuding, assault, murder, rape, suicide, sports - remains in all
its complexity one of the least understood fields of human social
life.The book's contributors identify the symbolic and ritualized
aspects of violence, and suggest ways of 'reading' violence as it
occurs in the world, whether as violent duelling and age-group
violence in Southern Ethiopia, bullfighting in Iberia, cattle
rustling in Kenya, guerrilla and militia wars in Colombia, or
public executions in China.These case studies suggest that
'violence' is not a simple, universal urge, but is contingent and
context-dependent, shaped by social relations of power, force and
dominance. To be the victim of violence is a humiliating and
frightening experience. But the many ambiguities that occur in the
use of violence must be considered, to understand why peace seems
only to exist as a contrast to the violation of peace.
There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives.
In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human
existence, and is very probably a constituting element of human
society. And yet violent action - warfare, penalties, insults,
feuding, assault, murder, rape, suicide, sports - remains in all
its complexity one of the least understood fields of human social
life.
The book's contributors identify the symbolic and ritualized
aspects of violence, and suggest ways of 'reading' violence as it
occurs in the world, whether as violent duelling and age-group
violence in Southern Ethiopia, bullfighting in Iberia, cattle
rustling in Kenya, guerrilla and militia wars in Colombia, or
public executions in China.
These case studies suggest that 'violence' is not a simple,
universal urge, but is contingent and context-dependent, shaped by
social relations of power, force and dominance. To be the victim of
violence is a humiliating and frightening experience. But the many
ambiguities that occur in the use of violence must be considered,
to understand why peace seems only to exist as a contrast to the
violation of peace.
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