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The health of the elderly in Hong Kong / edited by Shiu-kam Lam.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Hong Kong scholarship online.
- Hong Kong scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Health and hygiene--China--Hong Kong.
- Older people.
- Health surveys--China--Hong Kong.
- Health surveys.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Other Title:
- Title from Chinese abstract: Hsiang-kang lao jen chien kang yen chiu
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work sheds new light on the history of charity among Chinese overseas and its place in the history of charity in China and in the wider history of global philanthropy.
- Contents:
- Introduction : diaspora charity in the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1949 / John Fitzgerald and Hon-ming Yip
- Practising charity across the Chinese diaspora, 1850-1949 : a multidimensional overview / Elizabeth Sinn
- Making Chinese charities accountable : institutional changes in the late Qing and the republic and their overseas connection / David Faure
- Qiaopi and charity : the mechanisms and impact of diasporic Chinese philanthropy / Gregor Benton and Hong Liu
- Huiguan as an overseas charitable institution : homebound burials and the global Chinese diaspora, 1850-1949 / Hon-ming Yip
- The "letter should not beg" : Chinese diaspora philanthropy in higher education / Dong Wang
- Chinese charity in early Chinese American history / Yong Chen
- Chinese engagement with the Australian colonial charity model / Pauline Rule
- The "invisible work" of women : gender and philanthropic sociability in the evolution of early Chinese Australian voluntary organizations / Mei-fen Kuo
- Women and Guangdong native-place charity in Chinese Australian Pentecostalism : "the miracle of grace" / Denise A. Austin
- Building trust : private charity and public benefit in the associational life of the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1949 / John Fitzgerald.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 26, 2020).
- Accompanied by Chinese abstract (11 p.) entitled: Hsiang-kang lao jen chien kang yen chiu inserted in book.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789888528929
- 9888528920
- 9789888528264
- 9888528262
- 9789882201521
- 9882201520
- OCLC:
- 65352359
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