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The Fisher Folk of Late Imperial and Modern China

Although most studies of rural society in China deal with land villages, in fact very substantial numbers of Chinese people lived by the sea, on the rivers and the lakes. In land villages, mostly given to farming, people lived in permanent houses, whereas on the margins of the waterways many people lived in boats and sheds and developed their own marked features, often being viewed as pariahs by the rest of Chinese society. This book examines these boat-and-shed living people. It takes a historical anthropological approach, combining research in official records with investigations among surviving boat-and-shed living people, their oral traditions and their personal records. Besides outlining the special features of the boat-and-shed living people, the book considers why pressures over time drove many to move to land villages, and how boat-and-shed living people were gradually marginalized, often losing their fishing rights to those who claimed imperial connections. The book covers the subject from Ming and Qing times up to the present.

He Xi is Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

David Faure is Research Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society series

Series editor: David Faure, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Historians are being increasingly attracted by the methodology of historical anthropology, an approach which combines observations in the field with documentary analysis, both of official documents and of documents collected from local society. In China, historians have been pursuing such local historical research for a generation, with very little of this work being available in English hitherto. This series makes available in English research undertaken by the Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society project based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and related work. The books argue that top-heavy, dynasty-centred history is incomplete without an understanding of how local communities were involved in the government process and in the creation of their own historical narratives. The books argue that Chinese social history needs to be rewritten from the bottom up.

The Fisher Folk of Later Imperial and Modern China

An Historical Anthropology of Boat-and-Shed Living

Xi He and David Faure

The Fisher Folk of Late Imperial and Modern China

An historical anthropology of boat-and-shed living

Edited by Xi He and David Faure

First published 2016

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2016 He Xi and David Faure

The right of He Xi and David Faure to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

The fisher folk of late Imperial and Modern China : an historical anthropology of boat-and-shed living / edited by He Xi and David Faure.
pagescm(Anthropology of Asia series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.FishersChinaSocial conditions.2.Fishing villagesChina.
3.Rural populationChina.I.Faure, David, editor.
HD8039.F66C5452016
307.72dc232015023191

ISBN: 978-1-138-92406-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-68460-4 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Out of House Publishing

Contents

He Xi and David Faure

Part I
As seen from historical sources

Yang Peina

Xie Shi

Liang Hongsheng

Zhang Xiaoye

Part II
As encountered in field research

He Xi

Xia Yihong

Ota Izuru

Diao Tongju and She Kanglue

Part III
As contemporary stereotypes

Wong Wing-ho

Huang Xiangchun

Zeng Huijuan

Sato Yoshifumi

Appendices

He Xi and David Faure

David Faure is Wei Lun Research Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

Liang Hongsheng is Professor of History and Director of the Research Centre for the Development and Preservation of Historical Towns and Villages in South China at Jiangxi Normal University, China.

Zeng Huijuan recently obtained her Masters degree from the History Department of Sun Yat-sen University.

Ota Izuru is an Associate Professor in the History Department of the Faculty of Letters, Hiroshima University, Japan.

She Kangle obtained his Masters degree in 2012 from the Research Centre of Folklore, Advanced Institute of Confucian Studies, Shandong University and currently works in a township government in Jiangsu province, China.

Yang Peina is a Lecturer at the Centre for Historical Anthropology at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Xie Shi is Professor of History at Sung Yat-sen University and Executive Editor of the journal, Lishi renlei xue (Historical Anthropology), China.

Diao Tongju is an Associate Professor at the Research Centre of Folklore, Advanced Institute of Confucian Studies, Shandong University and a Deputy Editor of the journal Minsu yanjiu (Folklore Studies), China.

Wong Wing-ho is a Lecturer in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.

He Xi is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

Zhang Xiaoye is Professor of History at Shenzhen University, China.

Huang Xiangchun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology in Xiamen University, China.

Xia Yihong obtained her MPhil in Anthropology at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China, and is now a registered social worker.

Sato Yoshifumi is a Professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Hitosubashi University, Japan.

The editors acknowledge with thanks the Hong Kong SAR University Grants Committee Areas of Excellence (Fifth Round) for funding the Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society project jointly managed by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Sun Yat-sen University. They are also grateful to the Toyo Bunko for permission to reprint the cover photograph.

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