Ancestral Images: A Hong Kong Collection (Hardcover)
 
作者: Hugh Baker 
系列: Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series
書城編號: 227398

原價: HK$350.00
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出版社: 香港大學出版社Hong Kong University Press
出版日期: 2011/07/05
頁數: 404
尺寸: 7x9 inches
ISBN: 9789888083091

商品簡介
“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 “... far and away the best and most enlightening introduction to the customs and history of the New Territories ...” – James Hayes, author of The Great Difference: Hong Kong’s New Territories and Its People 1898–2004, in the Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society “Hugh Baker’s three volumes of Ancestral Images are classics. There is nothing comparable now or when the volumes were first published.” – James L. Watson, Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University “The text is lively and self-deprecating, and although journalistic in tone, it is informed by both first-hand experience and fluency with relevant secondary scholarship of the time . . . It serves as an enjoyable and idiosyncratic collection of snapshots of Hong Kong life in the 1960s and 1970s.” – Brian J. Nichols, Religious Studies Review

Description:
This new revised edition collects in one place the articles from the three volumes of Hugh Baker’s 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. 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 of life in modern urban Hong Kong and its neighbouring cities. Esoteric nuggets of information are scattered through the book: How do you ascend a pagoda with no staircase? How can you marry without attending the wedding? When is it wrong to buy a book? Hugh Baker answers these and many other questions in this well-rounded picture of a vibrant, quirky people painted with affection and informed by many years of scholarship and research.

Author:
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 shui, migration, and religion. He was chief editorial consultant to the twelve-part television series The Heart of the Dragon, and his much-repeated Baker's Dozen on Radio Television Hong Kong ran to four series each of thirteen talks. He served as Chinese language training adviser to the Hong Kong Government 1973–75, and frequently writes opinions and gives evidence in court on Chinese customary law.

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