Daughters of the Canton Delta
Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860–1930
(廣東的女兒：華南婚姻模式與經濟策略)
ISBN : 978-962-209-310-2
May 1992
248 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″, 2 maps
For sale in Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR, China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand only
Paperback
- HK$110.00
This book describes an extraordinary traditional marriage system, ‘delayed transfer marriage’ , that is virtually unknown in the ethnographic literature on Chinese Society, though it was widely practised in the Canton Delta for at least 20 years.