1st Edition
Local Stories and National History of China II Urban and Rural Development in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Hanjiang River
A Note for the Non-Specialist Reader
PART I: Clans, Temples, and Local Commercialization
1 Lifting the Coastal Ban and Clan Construction
2 Clan Integration in Dongfeng Village
3 Legalization of Maritime Trade and Its Effects
4 Commercial Center in Zhanglin
5 Temple Networks in Zhanglin
PART II: The History of “Hometowns for Overseas Chinese”
6 Rise of Shantou and Popularization of Dafeng Belief
7 Formation of “Hometowns for Overseas Chinese”
8 Letters and Remittances of Overseas Chinese and Characteristics of Their Hometowns
9 Overseas Chinese and Charitable Halls in Chaozhou and Shantou
10 Development of the Shantou City and the Hakka Ethnic Group
11 Epilogue
Biography
Chen Chunsheng is a professor in the Department of History at Sun Yat-sen University, China, and Chair of the Steering Committee for Guidance in History Teaching of the Ministry of Education of China. His research interests include Chinese social history, economic history, and historical theory. He has significant contributions to historical measurement research and traditional rural society studies.
