Cantonese Society in a Time of Change

Goran Aijmer and Virgil K. Y. Ho

This work is the result of a co-operation between a social anthropologist and a social historian and is focused on the social evolution of Southern China. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork study in the Pearl River Delta, which is the heartland of the Cantonese-speaking world, the book explores how the ordinary people and their society evolved in a period of time characterized by drastic change.

The study reports on how history supplies people with a repository for the future and accounts for how their march towards modernity is, at the same time, a reconstruction of a tradition.

Related Subjects

• Asian History

About the Author

Goran Aijmer is professor of social anthropology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Virgil K. Y. Ho is assistant professor of history in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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