This field study of organized Chinese life in Cambodia, past and present, takes its place in the growing sociological literature on the overseas Chinese and, in a sense, transcends it. For it relates its conclusions on the evolution the structure of the Cambodian Chinese community to the evidence from other overseas Chinese communities, and moves on to a comparison between overseas Chinese social organization and the organization of cities in China. Cambodia, the overseas Chinese, and traditional China all stand illuminated.
Author(s): William E. Willmott
Series: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Publisher: Berg Publishers; Routledge
Year: 2004
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Contents
Map
1. INTRODUCTION
2. ORIGINS OF THE CONGRÉGATION SYSTEM
3. THE CONGRÉGATION SYSTEM UNDER THE FRENCH
4. CHINESE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION WITHIN THE CONGRÉGATION
5. ALTERNATIVE CENTRES OF POWER
6. THE END OF THE CONGRÉGATIONS
7. THE RISE OF VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS
8. RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF CHINESE COMMUNITY LIFE
9. ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF CHINESE COMMUNITY LIFE
10. LEADERSHIP IN THE CHINESE COMMUNITY IN PHNOM-PENH
11. CHINESE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN SMALLER TOWNS
12. COMPARISONS WITH OTHER OVERSEAS CHINESE COMMUNITIES
13. BEYOND A CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
I. Statistics on the Chinese in Phnom-Penh and Siemréap
II. Newspapers in Phnom-Penh, 1962-63
III. The 'Procession of Gods' at Yuan-Xiao, 1963
LIST OF CHINESE CHARACTERS
LIST OF WORKS CITED
INDEX
