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Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
1. Introduction: Secret Societies Reconsidered
David Ownby 		3
2. Chinese Hui and the Early Modern Social Order:
Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Southeast China
David Ownby 		34
3. Chinese Organizations in West Borneo and Bangka:
Kongsi and Hui
Mary Somers Heidhues 		68
4. The Rise and Fall of the Ngee Heng Kongsi in Singapore
Carl A. Trocki 		89
5. Chinese Culture and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Malaya:
The Case of Yap Ah Loy
Sharon A. Carstens 		120
6. Messianism and the Heaven and Earth Society:
Approaches to Heaven and Earth Society Texts
Barend J. ter Haar 		153
7. Migration, Protection, and Racketeering:
The Spread of the Tiandihui within China
Dian Murray 		177
8. Brotherhoods, Secret Societies, and the Law
in Qing-Dynasty China
Robert J. Antony 		190
9. Epilogue: Ritual Process Reconsidered
Jean DeBernardi 		212
Glossary 235
Index 249

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Publication Information: Book Title: Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Modern South China and Southeast Asia. Contributors: David Ownby - editor, Mary Somers Heidhues - editor, Robert J. Antony - author, Jean Debernardi - author, Sharon Carstens - author, Dian H. Murray - author, Barend J. Ter Haar - author, Carl A. Trocki - author. Publisher: M. E. Sharpe. Place of Publication: Armonk, NY. Publication Year: 1993. Page Number: v.
    
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