TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hase,P.H.
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China: The Traditional Land Law of Hong Kong's New Territories, 1750-1950 
T2  - Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series
SN  - 9789882208490
AV  - KNQ9317 .H373 2013
U1  - 346.51250432 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Hong Kong [China]
PB  - Hong Kong University Press
KW  - Real property
KW  - China
KW  - New Territories
KW  - History
KW  - Land use
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - New Territories (China)
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Sources
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-465) and index; Introduction: The traditional New Territories, land and society -- The imperial land law -- The customary land law -- Registration for the land tax and collection of land tax -- Arable land : family holdings, trusts and clan holdings -- Restraints on transactions in land -- The next heir -- The middleman and the role of the community in land transactions -- Temporary and reversible alienations : mortgages and leases -- Land deeds and the Japanese occupation, 1941-1945 -- An overview -- Customary land deeds; Libro Electrónico
N2  - Land was always at the center of life in Hong Kong's rural New Territories: it sustained livelihoods and lineages and, for some, was a route to power. During imperial times villagers managed their land according to customs that were often at odds with formal Chinese law. British rule, 1898 to 1997, added complications by assimilating traditional practices into a western legal system. Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China explores land ownership in the New Territories, analyzing over a hundred surviving land deeds from the late Qing Dynasty to recent times, which are transcribed in full and translated into English. Together with other sources collected by the author during thirty years of research, these deeds yield information on all aspects of traditional village life -- from raising families and making a living to coping with intruders -- and evoke a view of the world which, despite decades of urbanization, still has resonance today
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/22423/
UR  - http://www.udb.edu.sv/biblioteca/inicio_recursos_electronicos.php
ER  -