This new revised edition collects in one place the articles from the three volumes of Hugh Baker's Ancestral Images originally published in 1979, 1980 and 1981. The 120 articles and photographs explore everyday life, customs and rituals in Hong Kong's rural New Territories. They investigate religion, food, language, history, festivals, family, strange happenings and clan warfare. The book documents much that can no longer be found. But it also provides an understanding of a world which has not yet entirely disappeared, and which still forms the background of life in modern urban Hong Kong and its neighbouring cities. Esoteric nuggets of information are scattered through the book: How do you ascend a pagoda with no staircase? How can you marry without attending the wedding? When is it wrong to buy a book? Hugh Baker answers these and many other questions in this well-rounded picture of a vibrant, quirky people painted with affection and informed by many years of scholarship and research.
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- Synposis
- Author Biography
- Endorsements
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Land
- 2. Lovers’ Rock
- 3. Kowtow
- 4. Puppets
- 5. Scholar Stones
- 6. Daai Si
- 7. Customs
- 8. Tree
- 9. Pigs
- 10. Moat
- 11. Anti-corruption
- 12. Barrier
- 13. Ancestral Trust
- 14. Chair
- 15. Local Government
- 16. Geomancer
- 17. Duck
- 18. Gambling
- 19. Protection
- 20. Jesuits
- 21. Feet
- 22. Funeral
- 23. Water
- 24. Congratulations?
- 25. Street Trader
- 26. University
- 27. Ching Ming
- 28. Feast
- 29. Pedicab
- 30. Islam
- 31. Fertility
- 32. Lantern
- 33. Grave
- 34. Fish
- 35. Magic
- 36. Lion-heads
- 37. Incantation
- 38. Law
- 39. Arch
- 40. Tablets
- 41. Stake-net
- 42. Marsh
- 43. Beam-raising
- 44. Mud
- 45. Birthday
- 46. Wealth God
- 47. Pagoda
- 48. Red
- 49. Earth God
- 50. Flower Boards
- 51. Shrimps
- 52. Music
- 53. Heaven
- 54. Double Yang
- 55. Rain God
- 56. Bamboo
- 57. Smoke
- 58. Offerings
- 59. Landscape
- 60. Mourning
- 61. Wedding Party
- 62. Nuns
- 63. Snakes
- 64. Temple
- 65. Hakka
- 66. Leadership
- 67. Yearly Blessings
- 68. Dragon
- 69. Sun Yat-sen
- 70. Fire Engine
- 71. Taoists
- 72. Zombies
- 73. Market
- 74. Patron Gods
- 75. Typhoon
- 76. Footpath
- 77. Soy
- 78. Schoolgirl
- 79. New Year Biscuits
- 80. Dan Ger
- 81. Charity
- 82. Isolation
- 83. Birth
- 84. Reverence
- 85. Journey
- 86. Yin and Yang
- 87. Kowloon
- 88. Gates
- 89. Soul
- 90. Picnic
- 91. House Re-warming
- 92. Cemetery
- 93. Water Buff alo
- 94. Buddhism
- 95. Tin Hau
- 96. Hall
- 97. Village
- 98. Procession
- 99. Dotting
- 100. Hundred Surnames
- 101. Vegetables
- 102. Talisman
- 103. Exhumation
- 104. Suicide
- 105. Wall
- 106. Burial
- 107. Eyes
- 108. Feuds
- 109. Kitchen God
- 110. Catholic Church
- 111. Actors
- 112. Hell Bank Note
- 113. Incense
- 114. Concern
- 115. Well God
- 116. Ruins
- 117. Women
- 118. Rice
- 119. Sojourners
- 120. Wires
- Further Reading
- Index
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