The fisher folk of late Imperial and Modern China : an historical anthropology of boat-and-shed living / edited by Xi He and David Faure.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faure, David, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Anthropology of Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fishers--China--Social conditions.

Fishers.

Fishing villages--China.

Fishing villages.

Rural population--China.

Rural population.

Social conditions.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 212 pages.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Although most studies of rural society in China deal with land villages, in fact very substantial numbers of Chinese people lived by the sea, on the rivers and the lakes. In land villages, mostly given to farming, people lived in permanent houses, whereas on the margins of the waterways many people lived in boats and sheds, and developed their own marked features, often being viewed as pariahs by the rest of Chinese society. This book examines these boat and shed living people. It takes an "historical anthropological" approach, combining research in official records with investigations among surviving boat and shed living people, their oral traditions and their personal records. Besides outlining the special features of the boat-and-shed living people, the book considers why pressures over time drove many to move to land villages, and how boat and shed living people were gradually marginalised, often losing their fishing rights to those who claimed imperial connections. The book covers the subject from Ming and Qing times up to the present. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I As seen from historical sources 31

1 Government registration in the fishing industry in south China during the Ming and the Qing / Yang Peina Peina, Yang 33

2 Dispersal and regrouping in the Zhoushan islands from the Ming to the Qing / Xie Shi Shi, Xie 45

3 The right to fish on Poyang lake as seen in a local record / Liang Hongsheng Hongsheng, Liang 57

4 The complexities of property rights at Diaocha lake as seen from litigation / Zhang Xiaoye Xiaoye, Zhang 67

Part II As encountered in field research 81

5 Gods adrift: religious ritual and local society on Naozhou island / He Xi Xi, He 83

6 Incense associations among small-boat fishermen on Tai lake / Xia Yihong Yihong, Xia 101

7 Some examples of the responsibilities and succession of "incense heads" (xiangtou) among the fishermen of Tai lake / Ota Izuru Izuru, Ota 113

8 From respect for the gods to sacrifice to the ancestors, creating lineage culture among the fishermen of Weishan lake / Diao Tongju Tongju, Diao, She Kanglue Kanglue, She 120

Part III As contemporary stereotypes 133

9 Land supports fishing people: the fishermen of Dongting lake from the 1930s to the 1950s / Wong Wing-Ho Wing-Ho, Wong 135

10 Going beyond pariah status: the boat people of Fuzhou in the Chinese People's Republic / Huang Xiangchun Xiangchun, Huang 142

11 From sheds to houses: a Dan village in the Pearl river delta in the twentieth century / Zeng Huijuan Huijuan, Zeng 159

12 The recent history of the fishing households of the nine surnames, a survey from the counties of Jiande and Tonglu, Zhejiang province / Sato Yoshifumi Yoshifumi, Sato 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781315684604

1315684608

Publisher Number:

99988927311

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